iBotNet.A – Malware Affecting iPhone Users

Mobiles | Reshadat | November 30, 2009 at 1:22 pm

Hello there! If you are new here, you might want to subscribe to the RSS feed for updates on this topic.

Recently there has been a significant rise in iPhone malware affecting jailbroken users. All the malwares take advantage of the default root:alpine SSH configuration. This new malware is by and far the most sophisticated among all the iPhone malwares. It creates a botnet, which is a series of infected nodes (iPhones in this case) that work together to perform a task like denial of service attacks (DoS attacks).

iBotNet iPhone Virus

The Virus changes the default SSH password, downloads additional malicious software that enables the iPhone to be used in a Botnet.

How to prevent this virus

This and almost all of the iPhone viruses can be prevented by changing the default SSH password. Below are the steps needed to change the default password:

Open Cydia. Search “Terminal”. Install MobileTerminal.
Open MobileTerminal. Type the follow commands:

su root

alpine

passwd root

Type your new password.

You can also install SBSettings from Cydia to switch off SSH when it is not needed.

If you have any question we’ll love to hear back from you on twitter via @technonix. You can also subscribe to our daily free e-mail news letter or follow technoNix on Facebook and keep your self updated with the latest of iPhone community.