Hi,
I did something stupid yesterday. I got a semi-obvious phishing mail with a PDF attachment, and opened the mail on both my iPhone 4 and my iPad (believing myself to be safe since AFAIK there are no known viruses for non-jailbroken iDevices) and when they tried to display the PDF, it was obviously broken.
Shortly afterwards, random porn pages popped up in Safari on both devices every once in a while the whole page would be redirected to a porn page.
So far this only happened on two domains: berlin.de (official webseite of the city of Berlin) on the iPhone and cumhuriyet.com.tr (major Turkish newspaper) on the iPad, so this could be merely a coincidence and not related to the spam mail at all, e.g. a compromised ad network randomly dishing out porn, although at first glance the sites don't seem to use the same ad providers. I didn't yet see this behavior on my computers or an iPhone 3GS that didn't open the PDF. (Which, admittedly, doesn't prove much, since the pages only pop up every once in a while and I do most of my browsing on the two devices in question.)
Both devices are running the latest iOS with no JB. I tried rebooting them no change. I'll probably try a restore next to see if that stops it.
I couldn't find any reports about something like this on the web. Did anyone else here ever experience something similar (with or without opening strange attachments first)?
Thanks for any insight.
Baumi
I did something stupid yesterday. I got a semi-obvious phishing mail with a PDF attachment, and opened the mail on both my iPhone 4 and my iPad (believing myself to be safe since AFAIK there are no known viruses for non-jailbroken iDevices) and when they tried to display the PDF, it was obviously broken.
Shortly afterwards, random porn pages popped up in Safari on both devices every once in a while the whole page would be redirected to a porn page.
So far this only happened on two domains: berlin.de (official webseite of the city of Berlin) on the iPhone and cumhuriyet.com.tr (major Turkish newspaper) on the iPad, so this could be merely a coincidence and not related to the spam mail at all, e.g. a compromised ad network randomly dishing out porn, although at first glance the sites don't seem to use the same ad providers. I didn't yet see this behavior on my computers or an iPhone 3GS that didn't open the PDF. (Which, admittedly, doesn't prove much, since the pages only pop up every once in a while and I do most of my browsing on the two devices in question.)
Both devices are running the latest iOS with no JB. I tried rebooting them no change. I'll probably try a restore next to see if that stops it.
I couldn't find any reports about something like this on the web. Did anyone else here ever experience something similar (with or without opening strange attachments first)?
Thanks for any insight.
Baumi