The CyberHood Watch Blog » Renown http://thecyberhoodwatch.com Where You Want To Be A Part Of The Hood! Thu, 09 Sep 2010 05:24:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 iPhone Hit With World’s First Worm In The Wild! http://thecyberhoodwatch.com/cyber-security/iphone-hit-with-worlds-first-worm-in-the-wild/ http://thecyberhoodwatch.com/cyber-security/iphone-hit-with-worlds-first-worm-in-the-wild/#comments Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:28:42 +0000 dballard http://thecyberhoodwatch.com/?p=404

I vividly remember reading all about the collaboration and expense of bringing together some of the world’s best minds; a renown team of engineers and developers who perfected and worked on bringing us the iPhone.

SLAP! – POW! – BAM…!

It was just a matter of time. The World’s first iPhone worm found in the wild.

Everyone meet “ikex” and your new iPhone wallpaper, “ikee is never going to give you up”.

Wild Worm Wiggles Into iPhone

Wild Worm Wiggles Into iPhone

Source of image of affected iPhone: Batman from the Whirlpool forum

Read more about the world’s first iPhone worm found in the wild, and what Graham Cluley from Sophos had to say.

When it comes to the Internet, it is only a matter of time.

david c ballard

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