AceDeceiver malware: What you need to know!Old design flaw becomes new malware vector for "AceDeceiver". There's a new form of iOS malware making the rounds that uses mechanisms previously employed to pirate apps as a way to infect iPhones and iPads. Dubbed "AceDeceiver", it simulates iTunes in order to get a trojan app onto your device, at which point it tries to engage in other nefarious behavior. What is "AceDeceiver"? From Palo Alto Networks: AceDeceiver is the first iOS malware we've seen that abuses certain design flaws in Apple's DRM protection mechanism — namely FairPlay — to install malicious apps on iOS devices regardless of whether they are jailbroken. This technique is called "FairPlay Man-In-The-Middle (MITM)" and has been used since 2013 to spread pirated iOS apps, but this is the first time we've seen it used to spread malware. (The FairPlay MITM attack technique was also presented at the USENIX Security Symposium in 2014; however, attacks using this technique are still occurring successfully.) We'...<br clear='all'/>
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