iOS app contains potential malware
An app available for download from Apple’s iOS App Store contains an embedded Trojan horse. And while the good news is that you’re almost definitely safe from any malware danger, there’s still reason for concern. The app itself is almost certainly harmless—and the malicious code is probably present unintentionally—but the fact that the code slipped through the App Store’s review process isn’t ideal.
The app Simply Find It, a $2 game from Simply Game, seems harmless enough. But if you run Bitdefender Virus Scanner—a free app in the Mac App Store—it will warn you about the presence of a Trojan horse within the app. A reader tipped Macworld off to the presence of the malware, and we confirmed it.
Apple declined to comment on the issue.
Bitdefender warns of the presence of Trojan.JS.iframe.BKD in the game. (Two other free Mac antivirus apps, iAntivirus and ClamXav, both failed to notice anything amiss with the app.) It’s not too much effort to figure out what Bitdefender is detecting in the app, either.
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