Recently the Dutch government has identified a group of cyber criminals operating through "cracked" iphones. Cracked Iphones, also known as "jailbroke" iphones, are iphones which are hacked so that other applications and programs could run on an iphone and not just the authorized ones. What the Dutch government has found are hackers operating by sending viruses to these jailbroken iphones and taking controls of network connections. This virus is known as the Duh worm, when an iphone user tries to access a bank website to make transactions, a phony website similar to those genuine websites appear and acquire user's details. iphone users are not to jailbrake their devices, "these hacks not only violate the warranty, they will also cause the iphone to become unstable and not work reliably"- Apple spokeswoman Natalie Harrison. Users of iphone must preserve its original system and not crack it for safety reasons. Its security risks are greater than its benefits.
(reference:http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/index.php/business/44397-jail-broken-iphones-hacked-by-new-virus)
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