“The first virus to spread from one cell phone to another has been created, the Russian anti-virus software vendor Kaspersky Labs announced on Tuesday.

Cabir has no malicious capabilities and affects only a small slice of ‘smart’ phones that run on both the sophisticated Symbian operating system and have a Bluetooth connection. It has been written by a group called 29a.

The virus is an ‘interesting milestone’, says Graham Cluley, a consultant at the anti-virus software vendor Sophos in Oxford, UK, because it is the first virus to spread through a cell phone network.” (New Scientist)