Hacker sends five euro ransom demands to jail broken iPhones
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Arts Technica reports that a Dutch hacker has broken into jailbroken iPhones, causing the following charming message to pop up:
Important Warning
Your iPhone’s been hacked because it’s really insecure! Please visit [URL] and secure your iPhone right away”
Right now, I can access all your files
This message won’t disappear until your iPhone’s secure.”
I’m not sure whether you can call this malware, because everything appears to be spelt correctly. I couldn’t even find any misplaced apostrophes.
When you follow the URL you get offered a solution in return for €5.
According to Arts Technica, the hacker -
used port scanning to identify jailbroken iPhones on T-mobile Netherlands with SSH running. Enabling SSH is a common procedure for jailbroken iPhones, allowing a user to log in via Terminal and run standard UNIX commands. Unfortunately, iPhones all have a default root password that many forget to change after jailbreaking”
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