Attackers can combine iPhones in the botnet

BBC writesThat a new worm on the iPhone. He steals access data for online banking that allows hackers to take money from accounts. Recall that the first worm all-only changed screensaver on your desktop smartphone at the portrait of pop singer 80 Rick Astley (Rick Astley). Now the situation is much more serious: communicators, have been subjected to attack, connect to the botnet and carry out commands sent from the control center somewhere in Lithuania.

attacks exposed smartphones residents of the Netherlands who are customers of online bank ING Direct. A prerequisite for the successful penetration of the worm on the iPhone is a phone hacking via jailbreak and install SSH-client (with an unchanged standard password). Worm PDA owners can "catch" when using Wi-Fi access point to the Internet.

Although ING Direct management of the bank is planning to publish a warning on its Web site, the promise of hackers and so obvious that it is important protect their iPhone, to change the default passwords, and it is better not to hack the device, otherwise the consequences may be the most pitiable.