The prototype has been created by Shantanu Gawde, who has previously created a malware that utilized the famed Xbox Kinect. Prototype will be showcased at the International Malware Conference, on 24th November in India, to be shared by the MalCon conference with Anti-virus vendors to help them mitigate similar attacks to an extent. No further details of the malware are available at this point of time, it will be only time before attackers target the platform aggressively to invade users privacy. Windows Phone 8 replaces its previously Windows CE-based architecture with one based on the Windows NT kernel with many components shared with Windows 8.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2012/11/hackers-release-windows-phone-8-malware.html