New Mobile Worm For Symbian S60 3rd Edition Phones


Researchers from various security firms have discovered a new mobile threat that targets Symbian phones. The worm features a signed Symbian certificate and propagates by sending malicious links via SMS to all numbers in a phone’s memory.
F-Secure’s Antivirus Research and Response team notes that this new threat, which it identifies as Trojan:SymbOS/Yxe.A, is rather new in nature for the S60 3rd Edition platform. “This is something we don’t see very often. There are spy tools and other privacy threats directed at S60 3rd Edition phones, but malware is still mainly an issue on S60 2nd Edition phones,” the team says.

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