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First iOS Malware Discovered In Apple's App Store
New submitter DavidGilbert99 writes "Security experts have discovered what is claimed to be the first ever piece of malware to be found in the Apple App Store. While Android is well known for malware, Apple has prided itself on being free from malicious apps ... until now. The app steals your contact data and uploads it to a remote server before sending spam SMS messages to all your contacts, but the messages look like they are coming from you."
The app steals your contact data and uploads it to a remote server
So it's just iCloud?
i might download it just to give it some ranking in the top free apps
otherwise it will be lost in the ocean of apps
The garden walls have been breached! Oh noes!
Life is not for the lazy.
Maybe these are the bastards that broke Angry Birds!!!!!!11 =D
InstaStock was malicious and was available on the app store. Why doesn't it count as the first?
Addendum: Looks like I'm right:
http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2959773&cid=40554831
You misunderstand. Apple tells users that this sharing of data is a feature, so it's not malware.
You're holding it wrong.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
...and where a competent person would not install a fleshlight app that asks for...
Freudian slip?