New iPhone Virus Found Takes on Jailbroken iPhones [iPhone/Privacy.A Virus Retrieves Your Data]

Are you among those who brag with his jailbroken iPhone, then you could be at risk as a new iPhone virus has been found. Everything started with Australian coder Ikee who designed a worm for those who had not RTFM and changed their root password. The application scans the 3G IP ranges of Australian carriers Telus, Optus, and Vodafone and when a vulnerable handset is found, it takes over the wallpaper and replaces it with “Rick Astley. Respect”

Although meant as a warning to change your root password (default is “alpine”) rather than a destructive piece of software, it looks like an anonymous coder has perfected the virus — which now is dubbed iPhone/Privacy.A, to work in the background to get access to your sensitive data. That include e-mail messages, SMS messages, calendar appointments, contacts, photos, music files, videos and basically anything else your iPhone apps have recorded.

There’s not much info concerning where the iPhone/Privacy.A virus uploads on your iPhone from, but security specialists have announced that the threat of being infected is still at low levels. Still you may want to get your root password changed if you want to stay on the safe side of things.