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Jailbroken iPhones in Australia getting Rickrolled by a worm
Download Squad —
... to Astley, one user commented that his image had been changed to a New England Patriots logo. The moral of the story? If you jailbreak your iPhone or iPod Touch, make sure you change the root password to something other than alpine so you can avoid the shenanigans. Jailbroken iPhones in Australia getting Rickrolled by a worm originally appeared on Download Squad on Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments ...
Worm hits Jailbroken iPhones (and iPod Touches) with SSH enabled + no default password change
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence —
If you've jailbroken your iPhone and enabled SSH, change your default password!
Reports from Sophos indicate that another hack is spreading that uses this obvious vulnerability to Rick Roll Jailbreakers with the wallpaper pictured below. Sophos, being a security vendor, states the obvious: If you leave your iPhone open like this, literally everything in it including email and bank passwords are vulnerable. This one is currently circulating around Australia but nothing is preventing it from spreading overseas. ...
Jailbroken iPhones RickRoll’d by “ikeeex”
PMP Today —
... once they read about the world’s first iPhone worm. Furthermore, a more malicious hacker could take the code written by ikee and adapt it to have a more sinister payload.
The hacker has been traced by Sophos. He has a MySpace page and a Twitter account. You can view his Twitter here.
His most recent message acknowledges his hack and clarifies that he wasn’t covering his tracks, hence the messages found by Sophos.
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First iPhone worm rickrolls jailbroken phones
Engadget —
... We sort of knew this would happen as soon as we heard about that iPhone wallpaper hack in the Netherlands -- a hacker named ikex has created what's apparently the first iPhone worm, and it's currently infecting jailbroken iPhones across Australia. The "ikee" worm, ...
Rickrolling iPhone worm is never gonna give you up
iPhone Atlas —
... . The photo is accompanied by the message "ikee is never gonna give you up," and it's apparently quite difficult to remove. According to security firm Sophos, this is the first worm detected that targets the iPhone . The vulnerability is pretty specific: the phones ...
iPhone worm trickles out in Oz, does nothing malicious
Tech Ticker —
... with a text “ikee is never going to give you up”. Analysing the worm code reveals lots of comments that apparently proves, ikee’s intent is not to gain undue advantage but show as a proof of concept.
This worm basically attacks iPhones with SSH using the default “alpine” password. A way to save yourself from this type of attack is to change the SSH password. Here’s a quick little guide to change the default SSH password to something of your choice.
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Ikee: First iPhone worm on jailbroken handsets
PR News: —
... because your wallpaper will change to Rick Astley. According to Graham Cluley’s Blog, there is no confirmation that the worm has spread to the rest of the world, but it is not something that we can rule out. ...
First iPhone Worm Discovered: Rickrolls Jailbroken iPhones [IPhone]
Gizmodo —
... So if you're a Jailbreaker, go into Cydia, install the MobileTerminal app, and use the passwd command to change the default from "alpine", to something a little more secure. [Sophos] ...
Worm Hits Jailbroken iPhones; Apple Plans Jailbreak Crackdown [Security]
Lifehacker —
[image] A number of jailbroken iPhone owners in Australia have found their lock screen wallpaper replaced by Rick Astley , as the first real worm spreads itself around. That's just one more reason any jailbreaker should ...
News: New iPhone worm ‘Rickrolls’ jailbroken devices
iLounge | All Things iPod, iPhone, iTunes and beyond —
image A new iPhone worm first spotted in Australia is spreading amongst jailbroken devices , changing their backgrounds to a picture of “Never Gonna Give You Up” singer Rick Astley. Similar to the harmless extortion message ...
iPhone Worm Rolls Jailbroken iPhones to Rick Astley
Digital Trends —
... . According to security firm Sophos , the worm can only impact users of jailbroken iPhones who have installed SSH on their devices. (The worm does not impact iPhones running Apple’s unaltered iPhone operating system). The worm gets in by exploiting a default password in the SSH installation; if SSH users never got around to changing the password, their iPhones are vulnerable. Once on board, the worm tried to find other iPhones on the user’s mobile carrier and also have the SSH vulnerability. And it sets the users’ desktop wallpaper to an image of Rick Astley and the message ...
Jailbreakers: First iPhone Worm Discovered, Features Rick Astley
TheAppleBlog —
... In the case of this worm, which only changes the background wallpaper to the Rick Astley photo with the slogan “ikee is never going to give you up” across the top, Graham Cluley of SophosLabs suggests it’s really only an experiment: ...
‘ikee’ iPhone worm discovered, changes wallpaper to Rick Astley’s photo
D' Technology Weblog —
... "ikex" - changes lock background wallpaper to an image of Rick Astley with message: ikee is never going to give you up. Important: If you’ve jailbroken your iPhone or iPod Touch, and installed SSH, then you must always change your root user password to something different than default, "alpine". The worm’ll not affect users who’ve not jailbroken their iPhones or who’ve not installed SSH.
More info: Sophos ...
Secure your jailbroken iPhone against worm
iPhone Atlas —
... is now a bit more secure than it was before and less vulnerable to the first worm detected that targets the iPhone .
