updated 9.11.09
More variants of iPhone malware are showing up, some claiming to gather personal data from phones. Don’t be surprised with the source code for ikee circulating that more nefarious malware will be coming soon.
JailBroken phone w/ alpine default pswd = pwned phone or a honeypot 
iPhone ikee Virus
In the past week or so at least four variants of simple worms that look for default ssh passwords on Jail Broken iPhones and replace the backgrounds screens have turned up. The one in the Netherlands is asking users to paypal 5 € to have it fixed.
JD has an interview with the Australian writer ikee and two versions of the source code are available for research purposes. This variant scans a list of subnets for exploitable iPhones and pwns them replacing the background image with a custom one.
Affected users are iPhone users that have JailBroken their phones and NOT changed their default ssh password of alpine. Take a look here at Saurik’s page with detailed instructions on changing your ssh password.
