Second Worm Targets the iPhone
F-Secure, the anti virus company has discovered a new malicious worm running on iPhones in the Netherlands. To become infected requires several factors, however you must be:
- using an iphone that has been jailbroken so that it can run unapproved applications.
- using the SSH (secure shell) application
- using the default password in SSH
- living in the Netherlands, although there is always the possiblity that the virus can spread.
The new virus also allows the phone to be controlled remotely allowing hackers to create a botnet or organised network of phones which may be used for a number of criminal activities including sending spam emails, dennial of service attacks and many other nefirious activities.
Only a few days earlier a proof of concept virus, called ‘ikee’ was released to make people aware of the security issues of running SSH software with the default password. The virus was harmless replacing the phone’s wallpaper with a picture of Rick Astley. It was only a matter of time before the virus was modified by criminals.
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