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First Malicious iPhone Worm In the Wild
An anonymous reader writes "After the ikee worm that displayed a picture of Rick Astley on jailbroken iPhones, the first malicious iPhone worm (Google translation; original, in Dutch) has now been discovered in the wild. Internet provider XS4ALL in the Netherlands encountered several of such devices (link in Dutch) on the wireless networks of their customers and put out a warning. After obtaining a copy of the malware it was discovered that the jailbroken phones, which are exploited through openSSH with a default password, scan IP ranges of mobile internet providers for other vulnerable iPhones, phone home to a C&C botnet server, are able to update themselves with additional malware and have the ability to dump the SMS database as well. Owners of a jailbroken iPhone with a default root password are advised to flash to the latest Apple firmware in order to ensure no malware is present."
Open SSH port with default password ... as a default for the phone. That's not even a virus that's like a white guy wandering downtown with a big armful of money telling everyone that niggers suck. Virus implies it slipped through security....
I see a future where Apple, the RIAA, and others might wish to write worms to help prevent people from hacking their devices or brick devices that have been "hacked".
Are you entirely certain that future hasn't already arrived?
Really? Then come over here, plug your phone into my computer, and let me copy your music off of it.
Oh, what's that, you can't do that, the Apple DRM prevents you from doing that?
Then I guess you, in fact, CAN'T play your music without DRM.