It’s 10 years since the first mobile malware appeared in June 2004. Cabir, also known as Caribe, was a family of Symbian viruses that kicked off the mobile malware problem. The idea of using a desktop or laptop computer as a carrier for mobile malware was revived in 2014, in the APK Downloader Trojan for Android. Xrove was a proof of concept virus that could jump from Windows PCs to Windows Mobile devices when you plugged the latter into the former. Meiti was a potential data-stole virus that came in a whole pack of games.”]
Source: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2014/06/01/from-cabir-to-koler-10-years-of-mobile-malware/