The first iPhone worm appeared in early November 2009, created by 21-year-old Australian technical college student Ashley Towns ofWollongong. He told Australian media that he created the worm to raise awareness of security issues.[59] "When people jailbreak their phone, it allows them to install a service on their phone called SSH... Generally you should always change the password after setting up an iPhone as all iPhones use the same password by default. This worm exploits people's tendency to not change the default password, changing their iphones wallpaper to Rick Astley. This virus was called iKill.
On 22 November 2009, F-Secure reported on a new malicious worm compromising bank transactions from jailbroken phones in theNetherlands.[60][61]
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