New Deadlier iPhone Worm hits the Netherlands
The iKee iPhone worm made by a Rick Ashley fan did not do any harm but It leads to more people developing deadlier worm that could make the iPhone act like a botnet and enables the iPhone to be controlled remotely without the user knowing it.
The new iPhone worm is specifically targeted to people of the Netherlands who uses their iPhones for internet banking with ING (Dutch Bank) online banking. It attacks only Jailbroken phones with SSH enabled and default password wasn’t changed. Hundreds of phones have been already infected, the worm can inject itself through phones in the same wi-fi hot spot.
If you use a “jail-broken” iphone make sure that you change your SSH password immediately to stop the worm from spreading and further do malicious stuff. If your iPhone is already infected and cannot login with SHH using “alpine”, the work changed your password to “ohshit”. Log in using “ohshit” and change your SSH password so that the remote user can not control your iPhone. (thanks Paul Ducklin)
Source BBC UK via security.nl
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