Apple Scrambling After Finding Malware in Over 40 AppStore Apps
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Ars Technica reports that Apple has discovered more than forty apps in the AppStore for iOS that contain malware. The source of the malware is another malware product called XcodeGhost that attached to Apple's Xcode development environment on Mac OSX and inserts new malware into the resulting code produced by the Xcode environment. So this is a layered attached on OSX that then attacks iOS through Xcode and the AppStore. Nearly every aspect of Apple's infrastructure is involved here.
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@mlnews said:
Nearly every aspect of Apple's infrastructure is involved here.
Because the hackers had to be this roundabout to get a single thing through.
And it still came down to developers taking a shortcut and not downloading the official distributions of the product
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Why can none of the sites I hit in the first few clicks list all the known infected apps. The article claims 40 but lists 3. One of which I do use on occasion, CamScanner.
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It's odd to think the developers of Angry Birds 2 would use an unofficial version of Xcode.
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@Dashrender said:
It's odd to think the developers of Angry Birds 2 would use an unofficial version of Xcode.
Seriously!
