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Stories about: ikee

New iPhone Worm Has Botnet Functionality A new iPhone worm, based on Ikee, has been detected in the wild, but unlike its predecessor, it is malicious in nature. The new malware intercepts and steals online banking information from mobile consumers and connects to a master control server in order to receive instructions.At the beginning of this month, the wo... 26 November 2009 06:18 GMT Author of First iPhone Worm Gets Job as Developer Sophos’ Graham Cluley has updated his blog with news that the author of the Ikee worm, emerged earlier this month, has gotten himself places, thanks to his malicious feat. Cluley doesn’t care much for the hacker and would rather see him pay for his actions, rather than get rewarded.“The author of th... 26 November 2009 06:15 GMT Jailbroken iPhones Hit by Worm Bearing Rick Astley’s Face A handful of jailbroken iPhone users who installed SSH from Cydia (in order to connect to their phone and make changes to the filesystem) have found that a hacker has created a worm set to infect them. The worm, affecting SSH-enabled devices whose owners forgot to change the default password, changes the background i... 9 November 2009 05:33 GMT