zigzag3143
Contributor, Sysnative Staff Emeritus
- Mar 27, 2012
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It's about six weeks since we first wrote about XcodeGhost.
That's the Apple Mac malware that was specially created by crooks in China to create iOS malware.
You read that correctly.
Just as the infamous Stuxnet virus tried to infect PCs with the ultimate goal (allegedly) of indirectly infecting uranium centrifuge controllers, so XcodeGhost aims sneakily and indirectly for for the App Store.
XcodeGhost was pretty successful, with many infected apps getting past Apple's approval process.
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/11/09/apples-xcodeghost-malware-still-in-the-machine/
That's the Apple Mac malware that was specially created by crooks in China to create iOS malware.
You read that correctly.
Just as the infamous Stuxnet virus tried to infect PCs with the ultimate goal (allegedly) of indirectly infecting uranium centrifuge controllers, so XcodeGhost aims sneakily and indirectly for for the App Store.
XcodeGhost was pretty successful, with many infected apps getting past Apple's approval process.
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/11/09/apples-xcodeghost-malware-still-in-the-machine/