First Dangerous iPhone Worm in the Wild

Dutch sites XS4ALL and security.nl are reporting that there is a dangerous iPhone worm out in the wild that’s attacking phones that are cracked with Jailbreak software. Follow the jump for the Google-translated link or go here for the Slashdot article. 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. Comments