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iPhone Intense Battery Drainage: Your Phone May Have Been Infected With Dutch Virus iBotnet

23 November 2009 One Comment

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Another malicious iPhone virus ‘iBotnet’ is making its way around the Internet and trying to steal bank passwords and SMS from victims iPhone.

iBotnet targets customers of the bank ING. When triggered, the worm redirects users visiting the banking site to an address in Lithuania which shows a fake login screen for ING online banking.

This comes less than two weeks after a 21-year-old Australian researcher, Ashley Towns, released the Ikee worm the prototype for this new type of attack.  Towns cleverly changed the wall paper of iPhones he hacked to a picture of 80s singer Rick Astley.

Like virus iKee, the iBotnet worm targeted specifically at iPhones which are jailbroken and have SSH installed with the default password was found.

Click here to read the tutorial to change the default iPhone password and secure your iPhone.

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Tags: bank password, ibotnet, ikee, iphone virus, password, Sms, ssh

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