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Title: Apple-Pestering WireLurker Banished for Now Post by: HCK on November 08, 2014, 03:00:27 am Apple-Pestering WireLurker Banished for Now
Palo Alto Networks on Wednesday reported that more than 400 apps infected with a malicious program it calls "WireLurker" have been downloaded 356,104 times by Chinese Mac owners from Maiyadi, an online app store unaffiliated with Apple. The malware does no harm to the Macs it infects but when the computer connects via USB to an iOS device -- an iPhone or iPad -- it delivers its malicious payload. Source: Apple-Pestering WireLurker Banished for Now (http://www.technewsworld.com/story/81322.html?rss=1) |