Two weeks ago I reported on Ikee, the world’s first iPhone worm which was spreading between jailbroken devices in Australia, replacing wallpaper with an image of Rick Astley.
As Chet reports on his blog, this weekend has seen the discovery of a new example of iPhone malware in the shape of a worm (dubbed “Duh” after a section of its code) that is reported to be much more malicious in intent than Ikee.
The new worm is similar to the original Ikee worm (and the recently discovered iPhone hacking tool) in so much as it only infects jailbroken iPhones, where users have installed OpenSSH and not changed the default…
Read more in my article on the Naked Security website.
Found this article interesting? Follow Graham Cluley on Twitter or Mastodon to read more of the exclusive content we post.
