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Title: Many US businesses are still running XcodeGhost-infected Apple apps Post by: HCK on November 06, 2015, 03:00:12 am Many US businesses are still running XcodeGhost-infected Apple apps
<article> <section class="page"> <p>Dozens of U.S. enterprises are still using Apple mobile apps seeded with malware for a clever hacking scheme revealed last month known as XcodeGhost.</p><p>The computer security firm FireEye said Tuesday it has detected that 210 enterprises that are still using infected apps, showing that the XcodeGhost malware “is a persistent security risk,” according to a blog post (https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2015/11/xcodeghost_s_a_new.html).</p><p>Last month, more than 4,000 applications were found (http://www.pcworld.com/article/2985449/ios/thousands-of-ios-apps-infected-by-xcodeghost.html) to have been modified with a counterfeit version of Xcode (https://developer.apple.com/xcode/), which is an application development tool from Apple.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3000848/business-security/many-us-enterprises-still-running-xcodeghost-infected-apple-apps-fireeye-says.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Many US businesses are still running XcodeGhost-infected Apple apps (http://www.macworld.com/article/3000848/business-security/many-us-enterprises-still-running-xcodeghost-infected-apple-apps-fireeye-says.html#tk.rss_all) |