Worm hits Jailbroken iPhones

NightFox

macrumors 68040

Original poster

• Nov 9, 2009

• #1

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

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

 

Abyssgh0st

macrumors 68000

• Nov 9, 2009

• #2

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

 

NightFox

macrumors 68040

Original poster

• Nov 9, 2009

• #3

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

Suspended

• Nov 9, 2009

• #4

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

 

bruinsrme

macrumors 604

• Nov 9, 2009

• #5

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

macrumors 65816

• Nov 9, 2009

• #6

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 🙂

 

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dhlizard

macrumors G4

• Nov 9, 2009

• #7

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

 

hellomoto4

macrumors 6502a

• Nov 9, 2009

• #8

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

macrumors 604

• Nov 9, 2009

• #9

this thread needs to be merged

with this thread same story! https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/816615/

 

dhlizard

macrumors G4

• Nov 12, 2009

• #10

First Malicious iPhone Malware Detected

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

iPhone/Privavy.A

Now the real reason to change those passwords !

 

uid15

Suspended

• Aug 6, 2015

• #11

instaxgirl said:

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 🙂

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Rick is a superb singer, one of my all time faves. I agree 🙂

 

Applejuiced

macrumors Westmere

• Aug 6, 2015

• #12

uid15 said:

Rick is a superb singer, one of my all time faves. I agree 🙂

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Why are you bringin up all these 6 year old threads about this rickrolling worm?

 

DeftwillP

macrumors 6502a

• Aug 6, 2015

• #13

uid15 is Rick Astley?

 

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