Cabir Worm Wriggles Into U.S. Mobile Phones
Several months after its first sighting in the Philippines, the Cabir worm that infects mobile phones running Symbian OS with the Series 60 user interface has surfaced in the United States.
Source: PC WorldA variant of the Cabir worm--there are several of them--was found in two Nokia handsets on display in the shop window of a store in Santa Monica, California, said Mikko Hypponen, director of antivirus research at F-Secure, in a telephone interview on Monday.
The worm was spotted by an engineer from rival software security vendor Symantec, according to Hypponen. "It was purely coincidental," he said. "When the Symantec guy noticed the infected handset in the shop window, he went inside and told the owner, whose mobile phone, it turned out, was also infected."
Hypponen declined to name the store. Symantec did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The U.S. sighting brings the total number of countries in which some variant of the Cabir worm has been detected to 12, he said.
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