First iPhone Trojan identified

January 09th, 2008 | Category: iPhone Talk

The iPhone truly has come of age, with the first identified “in the wild” trojan for the cellphone being flagged up by shield specialists Symantec and F-Secure.  “113 prep” or “iPhone firmware 1.1.3 prep”, as the malicious cipher is known, was first mentioned on ModMyiPhone.com,

where users reported rogue software displaying the note “shoes” after they visited a third-party site and installed a bogus package claiming to be the leaked firmware upgrade.

 

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