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Jailbroken iPhone Virus

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A new virus has been found to attack jailbroken iPhone's. A post on The Register, a tech blog out of the UK, in their post MalwareCleans Out Jailbroken iPhone, reports that a new virus that exploits Jailbroken iPhone's to allow hackers to silently copy data from an infected phone. The threat, first seen as a rick-roll that changed infected phones' background to a photo of 80's pop star Rick Astley, is now being used for something far more serious. It is only jailbroken phones that are vulnerable, an estimates 6-8% of all iPhone have been jailbroken. Hackers have the ability to access email, contacts, SMS, calendars, photos, music, video, and any data recorded by an app.

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