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Title: Thousands of iOS apps infected by XcodeGhost Post by: HCK on September 25, 2015, 09:00:10 am Thousands of iOS apps infected by XcodeGhost
<article> <section class="page"> <p> The impact of iOS app developers unknowingly using a rogue version of the Xcode development tool is turning out to be greater than initially thought: early reports listed just 39 apps that had been trojanized with the tool, but security researchers have since identified thousands more.</p><p> On Friday, security research firm Palo Alto Networks reported that 39 apps found in the App Store had been compromised (http://www.pcworld.com/article/2985014/apple-brings-down-malware-infected-apps-from-store.html) after their developers -- most of them located in China -- used a rogue version of Xcode that had been distributed on forums. Xcode is a development tool for iOS and OS X apps provided by Apple.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2985449/ios/thousands-of-ios-apps-infected-by-xcodeghost.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Thousands of iOS apps infected by XcodeGhost (http://www.macworld.com/article/2985449/ios/thousands-of-ios-apps-infected-by-xcodeghost.html#tk.rss_all) |