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:
Well these viruses have been a big time problem for the technology. Stealing account information is very common now by creating applications.