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Old 11-08-2009, 10:27 AM  
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New Worm is Rick-Rolling iPhone Users

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Apple iPhone owners in Australia have reported that their smartphones have been infected by a worm that has changed their wallpaper to an image of 1980s pop crooner Rick Astley.

The worm, which could have spread to other countries, is capable of breaking into jailbroken iPhones if their owners have not changed the default password after installing SSH. Once in place, the worm appears to attempt to find other iPhones on the mobile phone network that are similarly vulnerable, and installs itself again.

On each installation, the worm - written by a hacker calling themselves "ikee" - changes the lock background wallpaper to an image of Rick Astley with the message:

ikee is never going to give you up
http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/200...-astley-photo/

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