Kaspersky Labs said the Nokia 3650, 7650 and N-Gage phones can all be infected by Cabir. Symantec Corp said that it scans for and will try to send itself to any nearby Bluetooth devices, including printers.
There is no payload, apart from the vastly shortened battery life caused by the constant scanning for Bluetooth-enabled devices, Symantec said in its virus write-up. The worm is proof-of-concept only at the moment, and has not yet been spotted in the wild.
Kaspersky said that there are two versions of Cabir, one of which displays the text VZ/29a, suggesting it was created by the virus writing group 29a (hexadecimal for 666), which has been writing proof-of-concept malware for over a decade.
