Tham khảo tài liệu 'ethical hacking and countermeasures - phần 36', công nghệ thông tin, an ninh - bảo mật phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Jtf cEH Certified Ethical Hocker Ethical Hacking and Countermeasures Version 6 Module XXXVI Hacking Mobile Phones PDA and Handheld Devices IM Technology News First iPhone Trojan in the wild By Torn Espiner ZDNetUK Published on ZDNet News Jan 08 2008 11 26 18 AM Tags security iPhone Trojan Apple iPhone Trojan Horse Erica Spyware Spyware Adware Malware Viruses And Worms Tom Espiner ZDNetUK The first warnings about the Trojan were posted on Saturday on the iPhone modification forum said security vendor F-Secure. When installed the Trojan appeared to do nothing more than display the word shoes according to the ModMyiFone post. However when a user attempted to uninstall the malicious code the application wiped files from the bin directory breaking Erica s utilities such as sendfile. Erica s utilities are a collection of command-line utilities for the iPhone according to security vendor Symantec which warned on Monday that the Trojan also overwrites OpenSSH an open-source encryption protocol. The Trojan known as iPhone firmware prep or 113 prep is the first to be seen in the wild according to Symantec researcher Orla Cox. This is technically the first Trojan horse seen for the iPhone however it does appear to be more of a prank than an actual threat Cox wrote in a blog post. The impact of uninstalling the Trojan would appear to be an unintended side effect. Affected users need to uninstall the Trojan and reinstall affected files according to Symantec. The risk to users is minimal as they would have to choose to install the bogus package and the site which was hosting it has now been taken offline wrote Cox. Both Symantec and F-Secure warned that users should be cautious when installing third-party iPhone applications. Apple warned in September last year that its own updates could break unlocked iPhones running unofficial iPhone software. 2007 CNET Networks Inc. All Rights Reserved. Source http EC-Council Copyright by .
