First Ever iPhone Worm Rick Rolls Australia
The Rick Astley plan to take over the world has entered phase two. iPhone users in Australia were invaded in the last few days by a photo of the 1980s crooner and the words “ikee is never going to give you up,” a reference to Astley’s greatest hit, “Never Gonna Give You Up.” The image, installed by what’s purportedly the first worm to hit iPhones, replaced the wallpaper image phone owners normally saw when their handhelds entered lock mode. A hacker who goes by the names “Ikee” and “Ikex” took credit for the attack, which affects only jailbroken iPhones whose owners have installed SSH and neglected to change the default root password, “alpine.” Once a phone is infected, the worm searches for other vulnerable phones in the user’s mobile network, according to security firm Sophos, which notes that four variants of the worm have been spotted so far.
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