The hacker called Ashley Towns who created the Ikee worm for the iPhone has been approached by Australian firm of Mogeneration and been offered a job as iPhone application developer for them.
In other words, Ikee is being rewarded for creating the first worm for the iPhone which has lead to other worms being created which are more malicious such as the Dutch one which steals the bank details of users who use the ING Dutch bank. Read the rest of this entry »
iBotnet is the third worm to infect the iPhone and iPod Touch using an exploit with the SSH password that most people don’t bother to change from ‘alpine’. The other instances of worms on the iPhone were called Ikee and the iPhone/Privacy.A. The Ikee worm was a harmless one which changed the background of your lockscreen to a photo of Rick Astley. However the second one (and this one) are more harmful. Read the rest of this entry »
In the end it was to be expected after news of the Ikee worm spreading through iPhone’s that a more malicious worm was coming soon to the iPhone.
This worm is targetting Dutch users who user their devices to do eBanking with the Dutch online bank ING. What it does is redirects the ING login page to a phishing site which then steals your data and eventually, your money. Read the rest of this entry »
