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iPhone Malware Is Hitting China - Let’s Not Be Next |
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iPhone Malware Is Hitting China - Let’s Not Be Next
Just cut and pasted it from the news.
Had a quick read and it looks like iPhones that have not even been Jailbroken in China can get infected by simply clicking on a popup window (but you never know with the hyped up rubbish that's normally in the news). Just to make people aware. http://www.wired.com/2015/10/iphone-...lets-not-next/ By the sound of it it's only older versions of IOS that it's easy to get infected with, but newer versions are still not immune (reading you have to select YES to get infected on newer versions). |
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Just cut and pasted it from the news.
Had a quick read and it looks like iPhones that have not even been Jailbroken in China can get infected by simply clicking on a popup window (but you never know with the hyped up rubbish that's normally in the news). It has all been fixed by Apple and no longer applies. Basically Apple review all AppStore new Aps and revisions of existing ones and, very briefly, people worked out how to defeat this. |
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I am afraid you are well out of date!! This was fully discussed here about two weeks ago.
It has all been fixed by Apple and no longer applies. Basically Apple review all AppStore new Aps and revisions of existing ones and, very briefly, people worked out how to defeat this. |
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I am afraid you are well out of date!! This was fully discussed here about two weeks ago.
It has all been fixed by Apple and no longer applies. Basically Apple review all AppStore new Aps and revisions of existing ones and, very briefly, people worked out how to defeat this. |
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I thought it was a new article as it was dated yesterday and did not seem to be to do with the last App Store malware - this looked like you can get malware just by clicking on a popup link on the Internet?
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In at least the most recent of these two attacks, victims did have to make an almost comical series of blunders to have their phone hacked. The malware, which Palo Alto Networks called YiSpecter in its detailed writeup, tricked users into circumventing Apple’s tightly controlled App Store to install a porn video player. (In some cases the hackers used local internet service providers in China, which are known to hijack traffic to insert ads on websites, to advertise the sexy video app in pop-up prompts.) If the user fell for that lure, the hackers managed to skirt Apple’s App Store and install the app by using a so-called “enterprise certificate,” a system that allows companies and agencies to install their own custom programs on employees’ phones without Apple’s signoff.
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I am afraid you are well out of date!! This was fully discussed here about two weeks ago.
It has all been fixed by Apple and no longer applies. Basically Apple review all AppStore new Aps and revisions of existing ones and, very briefly, people worked out how to defeat this. |
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Different issue, but iirc it relates to some enterprise features that not all will have enabled.
Someone shipped out a profile and convinced people to install it, which means it was social engineering. Weak point is always the human. |
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