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Worms on mobile phones. That's what this Reuters article (World's First Mobile Virus Is Not Lethal, Yet) shows. Here's the gist:
The worm, named Cabir, was sent to security software firms Kapersky Lab of Russia and U.S.-based Symantec by a member of 29a, a group of virus writers from the Czech Republic and Slovakia who pride themselves in creating proof of concept malicious viruses," Kapersky Labs spokesman Denis Zenkin said."This is the very first version of a network worm which propagates via mobile phones," he said on Wednesday.
The worm is designed to work in smartphones running on Symbian and Series 60 software, Symantec said on its Web site.
This software is used to power millions of Nokia phones, such as the popular 6600 model.
Great. I think we all knew it was coming -- eventually. On the plus side, maybe it'll stop all those people from carrying on secondary conversations while ignoring their dining partner in restaurants . . .