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== Smartphones ==
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Beginning in July 2009, similar botnet capabilities have also emerged for the growing [[smartphone]] market. Examples include the July 2009 in the "wild" release of the Sexy Space [[text message]] worm, the world's first botnet capable [[SMS]] worm, which targeted the [[Symbian]] operating system in [[Nokia]] smartphones. Later that month, researcher [[Charlie Miller (security researcher)|Charlie Miller]] revealed a [[proof of concept]] text message worm for the [[iPhone]] at [[Black Hat Briefings]]. Also in July, [[United Arab Emirates]] consumers were targeted by the [[Etisalat]] BlackBerry [[spyware]] program. In the 2010s, the security community is divided as to the real world potential of mobile botnets. But in an August 2009 interview with ''[[The New York Times]]'', cyber security consultant [[Michael Gregg]] summarized the issue this way: "We are about at the point with [smart]phones that we were with desktops in the '80s."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/14/phone-hacking-threat-is-low-but-it-exists/|title=Phone Hacking Threat Is Low, but it Exists|first=Roy|last=Furchgott|website=Gadgetwise Blog|publisher=[[New York Times]]|access-date=July 16, 2017|date=August 14, 2009|archive-date=July 16, 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170716042023/https://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/14/phone-hacking-threat-is-low-but-it-exists/}}</ref>