iPhone Virus

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Charlie Miller, an Iphone hacker will launch the first iPhone virus today. He found it 6 weeks ago. Miller and his fellow cybersecurity researcher Collin Mulliner will both explain and reveal their iPhone SMS exploit some time today at the Blackhat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas.

iPhone SMS Virus details

How the SMS hack work?


First, this hack is not requirreleae the victim to download a file. An aggressor must know that the victim, the phone number. Miller says the attack is made possible by a serious memory corruption in the way the iPhone handles SMS messages. For the attack to work, an attacker must send hundreds of SMS messages of control (different from the regular SMS messages) and SMS that the first will be considered. This attack works on both the iPhone and the Andoid. What is SMS iPhone hack do? This trick may allow the attacker to make calls from your iPhone, steal your data, send text messages, and the spread of the attack to other iPhones in your address book.

How to recognize and avoid viruses iPhone

If you get a strange text message containing a square box, even if it is recognized from a number of May you be a victim of the iPhone virus.

You have two choices:

1. Put your iPhone in flight mode: Go to Settings -> Airplane Mode and drag the button off.


2. Hold down the power button and drag to turn your iPhone off.

The only thing we can do now is wait for Apple to release a patch. We expect Apple to release the iPhone 3.1 update in September, but hopefully it leads them to exploit the earlier release. iPhone Forensics expert, Jonathan Zdziarski and iPhone hacker p0sixninja the Dev Team Chonic recently tweeted about the possibility to publish their own patch for this vulnerability (only available through a Jailbreak). I hope Chronic Dev Team will be able to issue a patch for what Apple will show that they are wrong about the jailbreaking community. Apple does not jailbreaking and tries to make it illegal. The Chronic Dev Team released a first patch or Apple? We will keep you informed about this and also a guide on how to patch once a patch is available! Subscribe to our RSS feed or add this post for updates. Do you think it is irresponsible for Apple investigation have not released a patch yet? Leave a comment.

Update: iPhone virus A patch has been available!