A New iPhone Worm is Here, And This Time it’s Malicious [WARNING]

Published by Tech Pundit | Filed under Apple, Social media, iPhone | November 23rd, 2009

A couple of weeks ago, the first iPhone worm appeared , spreading on jailbroken devices with the SSH application installed (vulnerability being the fact that many users haven’t changed the default root password). As far as worms go, this one was quite benign, merely “rickrolling” users; i.e., changing the background image on the device to an image of Rick Astley. Now, according to early reports of strange activity by Dutch ISP XS4ALL , and later confirmed by Sophos , there’s a new worm in the wild, and this one is far more malicious

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A New iPhone Worm is Here, And This Time it’s Malicious [WARNING]