Beware users of jailbroken iPhones, it’s an iPhone virus! There is a worm circulating that targets your smartphone. The first infections have been discovered in Australia. The worm only works if your iPhone is jailbroken. The worm is a mobile Rick Roll changing the iPhone background to a photo of Rick Astley. Right now, that’s pretty harmless, but we at PMP Today recommend that if you want to try an iPhone jailbreak, don’t… or at least change the default password after you install SSH.
Here’s Sophos:
SophosLabs is analysing the worm’s code, which suggests that at least four variants have been written so far. One of the attributes of the latest variant (labelled the “D” version) is that it tries to hide its presence by using a filepath suggestive of the Cydia application.
The source code is littered with comments from the author suggesting the worm has been written as an experiment. One of the comments berates affected users for not following instructions when installing SSH, because if they had changed the default password the worm would not have been able to infect them.
Ok, we’re still not sure this isn’t a hoax. It sounds like one, so if any of you has been infected, we’d love to get a comment about in the appropriate section below.
[source: mashable]
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