New Worm Attack Symbian OS S60 3rd Edition

The network has information about a new worm, which can bring serious problems to owners Symbian-smartphones. The name of this worm SymbOS / Yxes.A and poses a serious threat, as is spreading rapidly.
At the delivery of SMS-messages in the background, containing links to porn sites. Also there is information that SymbOS / Yxes.A can calculate smartphone serial number, phone number of the owner and send the data to those who created it.
Currently, all the features of this worm is not known, it is expected that within a few days will complete analysis of the code and have new information about him. Research staff engaged in anti-virus company Forinet. From the well-known is worth noting that, in general, the activities of SymbOS / Yxes.A aimed at smartphones based on SymbianOS S60 Third Edition, ie, for the most part, the apparatus of Nokia.

As is known, in order to install an application on the smartphone OS Symbian S60 3rd Edition, requires special certificate from the Symbian Developers Network, which provides access to API-system interfaces. Naturally, the principle of the creation of certificates is not known to others, but the creators of SymbOS / Yxes.A easily able to make a fake certificate.