A new
Commwarrior variant were discoverd last week. It runs on
Symbian devices using Series 60 user interface first and second
editions.
This variant of Commwarrior, enumerated as T, was otherwise quite
uninteresting apart from the fact that it is newly compiled from
the original source unlike most variants. The author refers to it
as "Commwarrior v3 Lite" in his code. In the mean time, we already
have the detection published and we've updated our free
F-Commwarrior utility that you can download from f-secure.mobi
if you suspect your phone has been infected.
This variant affects only Symbian Series 60 phones that use Symbian
OS version 8.1 or older. This means that the latest model of phones
that could be affected is the Nokia N72. Phones using Symbian OS
9.0 or later, such as the Nokia E70 or 3250, will not be
affected.
