The researchers say "the world's first iPhone worm in the wild". These target on SSH software installed phones and change the Apple's default root password of "alpine".
A review of some of the source code, shows that the malware, once installed, searches the mobile phone network for other vulnerable iPhones and when it finds one, copies itself to them using the the default password and SSH, a Unix application also known as secure shell.
Users who tried to delete the image were chagrined to find it reappear once they rebooted their device.
Instructions for changing the iPhone's root password
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