After the announcement that iPhone jailbreaking has become legal in US, a malware-spreading campaign targeting the “iPhone unlocking” fans goes to confirm that cybercriminals never lack imagination.
Owners of iPhones are one step closer to taking total control of their widgets, after US pronounced legal the practice of “jailbreaking”, on Monday, the 26th of July 2010.
This means that anyone can jailbreak or unlock any cell phone without fear of legal consequences. Still, iPhone unlocking fans should pay attention to the software they download for this operation, because cybercriminals never sleep.
And this is how the story goes: you receive an e-mail in which you find out that you might get a new application for iPhone jailbreaking. All you have to do is click a link that will take you to the web page on which the desired software awaits you.
As you go further into this labyrinth and click the link, an exe file attempts to download onto your computer. But once saved and run, the executable opens up the way for a nice Trojan.
Identified by BitDefender as Trojan.Generic.3010833, this piece of malware is a keylogger that transmits everything the user writes on the computer to a specific email address, in this particular case to directory[REMOVED]@hotmail.com.
This allows the malware creators to intercept the victim’s visited sites, usernames, passwords, bank accounts information, such as pin number, bank account numbers, passwords, etc.
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Jail breaking is wat most iPhone prefers. But they should also know the danger. Thanks for providing an article on this mate.
Malware spreaders and Hackers have always been know to exploit the ‘topic of the day’. Diana’s Death,Y2K,Celebrity scandals. This was surely expected. People should realize that mails coming in aren’t sent by ‘good mannered people with no work’. One should always be aware of what they are clicking on.
I would not be surprised if it turns out that Apple is behind these malware attacks!
Just kidding…
This is bad news for most iPhone users, makes jailbreaking a bit dangerous now
Thanks for the info, but jailbreaking itself is risky
it is risky and i think its better to ask a expert to do jailbreak for your iPhone.
This is extremely helpful. Thank you, for putting this together and for making all of our lives easier!