First iPhone worm rickrolls jailbroken phones

November 08th, 2009 | Category: Gadget Corner

digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/apple/First_iPhone_worm_rickrolls_jailbroken_phones’; We sort of knew that would happen as soon as we heard about that iPhone wallpaper hack in the Netherlands — a hacker named ikex has created what’s apparently the first iPhone worm, and it’s currently infecting jailbroken iPhones across Australia. The “ikee” worm, as it’s being called, takes advantage of the fact that jailbroken iPhones with SSH installed all have the same default root password of “alpine,” and once in the system it changes your wallpaper to an image of Rick Astley and thereupon tries to install itself on other jailbroken iPhones on the network. Sophos says it hasn’t confirmed any infections outside of Oz, and to be clear, that worm

can’t get to stock iPhones or jailbreak owners who haven’t installed SSH — but whether you’re running a hacked phone we’d say you should change that root password right away just to be safe. Get to it, kids.

[Via PMP Today; thanks to everyone who sent that in]

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Original post by Nilay Patel

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