More iOS Malware - This Time in Official App Store

Srgnt_Ballistic · September 21, 2015

Source: Cult of Mac
Original Source: Palo Alto Networks

Not too long after a major piece of malware theoretically infected up to 225K Jailbroken iOS users, exposing all of their data, another piece of iOS Malware has made been found. This time, however, the software has actually made it on to the official Apple App Store.

This weekend the "XcodeGhost" program was found embedded in legitimate apps. It has been thought to have happened because of Chinese developers that use non-legitimate versions of the Xcode SDK taken downloaded from chinese file sharing site Baidu (DON'T USE THIS SITE FOR EXECUTABLES!). In using the XcodeGhost version of Xcode the developers, most likely, unknowingly allowed the malicious code into their apps which have already been removed from the App Store by Apple.

If you have any of the listed apps installed it is recommended you delete them IMMEDIATELY!

*Note: Apparently Rovio has said that only the Chinese version of Angry Birds 2 was affected.