Against a very high degree! IPhone second paragraph of the worm began to unfold

Recently appeared in a worm for the iPhone mobile phone, and earlier we reported the first wallpaper of the iPhone will only change the mobile phone worm is different is that this virus can be not so "good", it can be used to iPhone users to obtain sensitive information.

According to security firm Sophos reported that late last week, a Dutch operator found a special attack on iPhone / iPod Touch a new worm. This virus has two startup scripts configuration, in which a script is used in the device starts loading the virus, while a script is responsible for the iPhone / iPod to connect to a server located in the territory of Lithuania, and then the machine's sensitive data Through this server, sent to the hands of criminals.

According to Sophos reported that this worm has a number of network operators began to unfold, including the Netherlands, UPC, Austria Optus, as well as T-Mobile is located in a multi-country network. To make matters worse, this spread of the virus in the WiFi network, the speed faster than 3G networks. Infected with the virus, users will find using the WiFi connection, mobile phone battery life was significantly shorter, which is obviously due to the virus at this time due to an extremely active period.

Cell phone virus infection, will be infected objects automatically numbers, so an attacker can identify a particular mobile phones. The virus also took aim at the same time, those who use text messages for authentication of the trading system, such as mTAN, which is a bank is often used to validate the user's mobile phones send and receive a password system, users can log on using this system, Internet Banking Account .

Sophos recommends infected with the virus iPhone / iPod touch users would be better to restore the phone's firmware into the latest release of Apple's firmware version. So far, there has not been found to remove the virus to other appropriate method.


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