There is another malicious iPhone virus which is now attacking jailbroken iPhone with OpenSSH enabled and still using default root password (which is alpine). This virus will gain access to personal information in order to steal your sensitive information, the bad news is it is targeting ING bank customers (if you’re an ING’s customer beware!)

If your iPhone is infected with this virus, you’ll be automatically redirected to phishing site instead of ING banking site and there will be a bogus login screen for ING online banking, thus the virus can store your login account and other sensitive information if you use the bogus login screen.

Sophos, as security firm, explains this virus attack IP ranges from a larger range of ISPS, such T-Mobile (Many), UPC (Netherlands) and Optus (Australia) and Sophos further said that the virus has the ability to alter the default root password of the infected devices:

Security.nl also says that the worm changes the root password from the default of “alpine” that Apple set in the factory firmware, making it more difficult for users to secure their devices.

Sophos suggests for those who have their iPhone infected by this virus to recover it by restoring to Apple’s original firmware via iTunes. The symptom of the infected iPhone can be detected via your battery life:

One symptom noted by security.nl is that battery life is very, very short when the device is connected to WiFi, because the worm is generating so much network activity.

You shouldn’t be too worried if you’re not using jailbroken iPhone or without installing OpenSSH. Also, if you’re not ING’s customer, the virus will not affect you either. However, to prevent any further virus attack via the SSH loophole, if you haven’t done so, you should follow the procedures covered in this post to secure your iPhone immediately.

Please note this virus ONLY infects to jailbroken iPhone, without installing OpenSSH and not changing their default root password, and a ING banking customer users.

If you have jailbroken iPhone with OpenSSH enabled, you can prevent this infection or any possible threats in the future by securing your jailbroken iPhone, visit the following link to follow the instruction:

How To Secure Jailbroken iPhone From SSH Hack

Fan Check Application Virus. Many Facebook users are wondering whether Fan Check Application is a virus or not, great confusion occurs among Facebook users concerning this application, Facebook users searching the way on how to remove it and keep themselves save from the so-called virus within Fan Check Application. Well, so far none inside Facebook management is giving a clarification on this matter. But, hackers or some malicious developers use this as an opportunity to gain benefit from this situation.

They created Facebook Fan Check Virus websites and recommending people to download bogus software to scan virus which in fact only compromises their computer. And according Graham Cluley, a senior technology consultant at Sophos, wrote on Monday in his blog:

Which really host fake anti-virus software which display bogus warnings about the security of your computer in an attempt to get you to install fraudulent software and cough-up your credit card details

One more thing, NetworkWorld also comments about this:

Fan Check is not a virus

So the best thing we do now is waiting for the official notification from Facebook concerning Fan Check Application, thus don’t try anything that will risk yourself and your computer, wait and be patient!

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