The first worm penetrated the iPhone and iPod touch

Owners of iPhone and iPod touch to open the file system as a result of dzheylbreka and installed SSH client with an unchanged standard password should beware This worm is passed in Australia, but may at any time to get there and to other countries. The worm creates a 21-year-old unemployed hacker Ashley Towns of Australia (Ashley Towns), hiding under the pseudonym Ikee. Permeating through jailbreaking jailbroken smartphone, the worm changes the wallpaper on the lock screen portrait of the pop star's 80 Rick Astley (Rick Astley). At the moment, the virus does not cause any harm to the hardware device and the information stored in them. But in the long term it may be modified into something more dangerous, and then using it really will be possible to steal confidential data.

The goal of the hacker Ikee pursued the following: he just wanted to give careless owners of phones and players from Apple understand what is unsafe to walk unprotected phone on the streets. Indeed, thanks to free access to devices via SSH protocol any craftsman to connect to them easily.

At this point it is not known how many smartphones and players were infected with the virus. But according Ikee him, only his iPhone worm transmitted via Wi-Fi technology hundred sets. However, the manufacturer of F-Secure anti-virus software reported that outside of Australia until the worm not entered.

And to protect the iPhone from the penetration of Rick Astley, you must amend the default password to access it via SSH protocol.