iPhone Virus Creator Gets Hired as App Developer

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About two weeks ago we found out that a virus has been released out in the wild and that it’s attacking jailbroken iPhone 3G/3GS users who haven’t changed their root password. At the time the ingenious coder was only trying to alert people that their smartphones are not as secure as they thought and that simple safety measure would keep them away from trouble, however, some less well intended hacker has refined the iPhone worm to actually steal sensitive details.

Fast forward to our days because today we caught wind that the Australian who started everything, has been offered a job as an iPhone application developer by a company called mogeneration. Although 21-year-old, Ashley Towns has publicly acknowledged that he’s in charge with the Ikee worm that made unauthorised modifications to people’s handsets, he was never under investigation, hence why he took the opportunity.

“yey, i got the job! i’m now an iPhone application developer!” he said on his Twitter page.

So should we expect backdoors in applications coming from mogeration? Let’s hope not!