Botnets Target Potential iPhone Buyers

Security solution company PandaLabs uncovered a 7,500-computer (and growing) botnet this week infected by a Trojan called Aifone.A. PC users who have been infected by the virus trying to buy an iPhone from Apple's own URL (iphone.com) get redirected to another site mimicking the iPhone site. If the users ultimately attempt to order an iPhone through the spoofed site, they will then hand their bank or credit card details over to the scammers.

"This is one of the most sophisticated attacks we have seen targeting a user community, in this case iPhone users," said PandaLabs technical director Luis Corrons in a statement. "It is a really complex, dangerous attack that combines elements of malware (the Trojan), phishing (the spoofed web page) and even adware (pop-ups, modification of search results, etc.)"