Second iPhone worm: A botnet risk

News in brief: Malware steps up from rickrolling to pose genuine threat

By silicon.com staff, 24 November 2009 14:40

NEWS

A second iPhone worm has been identified.

Like the first worm - unearthed last month - to attack iPhones, this latest exploit also affects jailbroken devices with SSH (secure shell) protocol-enabled and unchanged default passwords.

Security vendor F-Secure, which discovered the worm, said the new worm is more threatening than the previous 'rickrolling' ikee worm and has botnet capability

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iPhone is under threat from a new worm
(Photo credit: Apple)

For more, see Second iPhone worm behaves like botnet on ZDNet Asia.

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