Worm hits Jailbroken iPhones

[NightFox]

Just spotted this article on The Register: Australian iPhone users woken up to find their jailbroken iPhones Rickrolled... :eek:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/08/iphone_worm_rickrolls_users/

[Abyssgh0st]

That would sure be a surprise in the morning. Nothing is secure I guess.

[NightFox]

I'm wondering if this is going to be seen globally today as the rest of the world wakes up.

The original story release is here:

http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2009/11/08/iphone-worm-discovered-wallpaper-rick-astley-photo/

[andybno1]

easy answer around this is change your ssh password or turn ssh off when not in use ;)

[bruinsrme]

I recall when I first started jailbreaking one of the steps was to change the root password just to be safe.

30 seconds, done, non-issue

[instaxgirl]

I'd be kind of amused if this happened to me.

I really like that song, been humming it ever since I read this story :)

[dhlizard]

Yea, the prevention for this type of event takes 2-3 minutes yet very few have changed their SSH root and mobile passwords.

[hellomoto4]

I got rickrolled :(
Serves me right for not changing default SSH password, I'm glad it was nothing worse!

Oh well, fixed now. And password changed ;)

[labman]

with this thread same story! http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=816615

[dhlizard]

Well we knew it wouldn't be long. First SSH injected malicious malware

iPhone/Privavy.A (http://www.ihackintosh.com/2009/11/iphoneprivacy-a-first-malicious-iphone-malware-detected/)

Now the real reason to change those passwords !