Jailbroken iPhones are under attack a lot lately with more than 5 known viruses or threats being discovered till now. Although the previous threats were mostly made for fun or to publicize how easy is it to hack an iPhone, this time a dreaded virus steals important banking information.

Basically, during the process of Jailbreaking, iPhone users enable SSH that allows a PC to communicate the internal frameworks and software on the iPhone. Once SSH is enabled, anyone could connect to the iPhone and send commands to control any part of the iPhone.

SSH does have a built-in security feature with the default password “alpine” but nobody known about the risks and simply don’t change it. So any hacker could gain access to the iPhone who have enabled SSH and not changed their default password.

Firstly, we saw a virus called the Ikee worm which simply changes your iPhone’ wallpaper to Rick Astley signifying that you have been Rick-Rolled. We could imagine this worm was the beginning in virus creation for the iPhones or created to test the hacking capabilities of iPhone.

Subsequent worms were all focused on stealing personal information such as contacts, texts and so on. One such virus will direct Dutch bank customers to a fake website that looks similar to the original bankers website and tricks you to enter the login details which is then forwarded to the hacker. Pretty dreadful huh? The worst part is, it constantly searches for other iPhones via WiFI and infects them too. It even changes the default password to something else so you can’t even delete it easily.

Bottom line, is to be safe by changing your default password of SSH right after Jailbreaking or better yet, turn of SSH when not in use by a simple application called SBSettings which can be installed from Cydia itself.

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