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Rickrolling worm infects jailbroken iPhones

2009-11-09 09:06 by
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A number of iPhones in Australia have reportedly been infected by a worm that replaces the background wallpaper with an image of 80's pop icon Rick Astley.

"The worm, which could have spread to other countries although we have no confirmed reports outside Australia, is capable of breaking into jailbroken iPhones if their owners have not changed the default password after installing SSH," explained Sophos security researcher Graham Cluley. "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."

The nefarious worm - which was written by a hacker named Ikex - also scrawls the phrase "kee is never going to give you up"over Astley's infamous visage.

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