Another Iphone virus is on the loose

ACCORDING TO insecurity firm F-Secure there is a new Iphone worm on the loose and this time it has a worse payload than a picture of 80s popstar Rick Astley and some poor spelling.

As with its predecessor, the Ikee worm, the virus only affects jailbroken Iphones and those users who have not changed their password from the default, that is, people who thought they were more technically minded than they actually are.

So far it's only affecting a minority of users, but according to the firm is "much more serious than the first Iphone worm as it seems to try to steal information from the devices."

F-Secure added that it had botnet functions that were connecting to a web-based command and control centre in Lithuania.

Graham Cluley, security expert and blogger at Sophos, donned his crime fighting suit to add, "Two weeks is all it took for a jokey Rick Astley worm to be adapted into something which creates a criminal botnet and [is] apparently designed to steal money from innocent users. Some may have thought that the Ikee Iphone worm was a one-off. Some people might have imagined that lightning wouldn't strike Iphones more than once - but they were wrong. And one thing is certain - you can be sure that if hackers find they can make money out of poorly-secured jailbroken Iphones, they will continue to attack them."

Fittingly the virus has been dubbed, "Duh". We expect more users to say the same when their Iphones get infected and they suddently remember that they never changed the password. µ