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World’s first iPhone worm Rickrolls angry fanbois

Posted on November 9th, 2009 at 8:18 by John Sinteur in category: Apple -- Write a comment

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iPhone owners in Australia awoke this weekend to find their devices targeted by self-replicating attacks that display an image of 1980s heart throb Rick Astley that’s not easily removed.

The attacks, which researchers say are the world’s first iPhone worm in the wild, target jailbroken iPhones that have SSH software installed and keep Apple’s default root password of “alpine.”

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