The iPhone virus now has a payload
iTWire has published a number of stories on the recent iPhone / iPod Touch virus Ikee and it was alluded in these that the naughty boys would pick up on the basic code and make it do something useful. Guess what, they have already!
Reports are flooding in from a variety of virus research organisations that a new virus, called iPhone/Privacy.A is definitely stealing user data. Peter James, of Intego, writing on his blog observes that, "When connecting to a jailbroken iPhone, this tool allows a hacker to silently copy a treasure trove of user data from a compromised iPhone: e-mail, contacts, SMSs, calendars, photos, music files, videos, as well as any data recorded by any iPhone app. Unlike the ikee worm, which signals its presence by changing the iPhone's wallpaper, this hacker tool gives no indication that it has invaded an iPhone.
"Hackers using this tool will install it on a computer – Mac, PC, Unix or Linux – then let it work. It scans the network accessible to it, and when it finds a jailbroken iPhone, breaks into it, then steals data and records it."
