Netherlands - A cracker broke into a number of iPhone and tried to extort the owners pay some money to secure their devices.
"Your iPhone has been hacked because of this device really is not safe. doiop.com Visit / iHacked and secures your iPhone right now. Right now I can access all your files," the contents of the threat of a cracker to the victims.
This incident happened a number of iPhone users in the Netherlands. To the victim, a cracker to charge 5 euros or about U.S. $ 7.36 is sent to a PayPal account. Then it will ask for a cracker victims wait for an email with instructions to secure their iPhone.
"If you're not willing to pay, no problem for me. However, I remember way travel to access your iPhone, it can be used by thousands of others, they can send messages from your number (like I do), use it to call or intercepting calls you make and of course do whatever they want, even use it for hacking activities. I assure you, I do not want to harm you, but maybe just some cracker will do. This is just advice for securing your phone, "the message continued from crackers are trying to frighten the victim, as quoted from Cnet, on Wednesday (4/11/2009).
Pointed out the cracker using port scanning to identify the mobile phone network T-Mobile in the Netherlands that is running SSH (Secure Shell protocol network), which is often used in the iPhone's in-jailbreak, and allows users to log in via the Terminal and UNIX commands.
Often mengoprek iPhone users to get their devices to run unauthorized applications. IPhone users who do not change the default root password after jailbreak vulnerable to attack.
