As inevitable as the sun rising in the East and setting in the West, an innocuous iPhone worm has been transformed into a malicious bank details-stealing virus. The second recorded iPhone infection operates on precisely the same principles as the first, as it targets jailbroken handsets with SSH installed, but that day adds the ability for the hacker to remotely control and access the phone. By throwing up a purported ING Direct login page, he (or she, or they) can gather your online banking credentials and, presumably, all the cash they are supposed to

protect. Presently isolated within the Netherlands, that outbreak may spread further still, as it is capable of infecting other jailbroken iPhones on the same WiFi network.

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Original post by Vladislav Savov