Mobile phone network worm on the loose

The Fortinet threat response team has reported a new and malicious Symbian OS based worm that is currently actively infecting mobile phone networks. According to Fortinet, the worm comes packaged in disguise as a multimedia file with a name such as sex.mp3 or love.rm and enables it to easily con the average mobile phone user into installing the software onto their handsets. The SymbOS/Beselo.A!worm, as it has been none too snappily named, can exist on several different Symbian S60 enabled devices including popular Nokia 6600, 6630, 6680, 7610, N70 and N72 handsets.