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iPhone Jailbreak Modified Into CC Sniffing Malware

Posted by timothy on from the sniff-sniff-that's-very-sad dept.

chicksdaddy writes "In a presentation at the ToorCon Hacking Conference in San Diego on Saturday, Eric Monti, a Senior Researcher at Trustwave's Spider Labs, demonstrated how to turn the popular JailbreakMe Tool for iPhones and iPads into stealthy rootkit-style malware that can monitor voice and video activity or intercept sensitive data, such as credit card magnetic stripe data from an iPhone-based transaction."

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  1. Re:Yay! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    >>> The iPhone can't get infected by simply browsing to a website.

    Well, there was a jailbreak to do just that before :)

    It may be patched, but I'm sure we'll see the likes of it or something similar again...