After two weeks of infection on the phone only a few hundred in Australia, malicious code written specifically for Apple’s smartphone has spread to devices operating in many other networks.

A provider of mobile services in the Netherlands have discovered a worm able to open ports Miss (backdoor) and turning the iPhone into a “phone code” in the botnet. Worm targeting the phone was interfering system (jailbreak) and have not changed the default password. It also changed the root password of the device, making it difficult to control the owner of the device.

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“Many iPhone jailbreak software has been installed bad or that customers do not know”, page XS4ALL confirmed. “Users should not think about jailbreak if not fully aware of security risks.

Worm by scanning mirror many IP range used in T-Mobile and UPC in the Netherlands or Optus in Australia. iPhone infected with malicious code often out of battery very quickly when Wi-Fi 802.11 by malicious software made too many connections.

Security firms F-Secure for virus expression iPhone has spread to many networks but not common. This latest attack took place two weeks later versions Ikee this background many phones iPhone in Australia