Scammers use the hype around the iPhone

Not only Apple, AT & T, and accessories makers enjoy all the delights of the hype around the iPhone. Virus writers and scammers also found a way to make money in this situation. They have already managed to create a botnet of users who wanted to buy a new “miracle device” from Apple.

The PandaLabs company discovered this week a botnet of 7.5 thousand computers (the number is constantly growing) infected with a trojan called Aifone.A . PC users who tried to get an iPhone from Apple's iphone.com website were redirected to a fake website imitating the iPhone site. If users ordered an iPhone through this fake website, then information about the bank or credit card fell into the hands of fraudsters.

“This is one of the most difficult attacks aimed at a specific community, this time at iPhone buyers,” said PandaLabs technical director Lewis Carrons (Luis Corrons). - “This is a truly complex, dangerous attack that combines elements of malicious code (Aifone.A Trojan), phishing (fake iPhone website) and even advertising spies (pop-ups, changing search results, etc.)”.

The company emphasizes that if now the Trojan uses the rush around the iPhone for its own purposes, then from the Aifone.A source code it will be possible to assemble a similar Trojan, but already to use the rush around, for example, some Zune 2.
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The “lucky ones” who caught this trojan could have been users of Windows 2003 / XP / 2000 / NT / ME / 98/95 - owners of Windows Vista have bypassed the Aifone.A Trojan.