iOS Developer Site At Core of Facebook, Apple Watering Hole Attack

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday February 20, 2013 @08:00AM from the web-of-trust dept.

msm1267 writes "The missing link connecting the attacks against Apple, Facebook and possibly Twitter is a popular iOS mobile developers' forum called iphonedevsdk which was discovered hosting malware in an apparent watering hole attack that has likely snared victims at hundreds of organizations beyond the big three. It's not clear whether the site remains infected, but researcher Eric Romang dug into the situation and determined that the site was hosting malicious JavaScript that was redirecting visitors to another site, min.liveanalytics. That site had been hosting malware as of Jan. 15."

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Re:without clicking on the link by houstonbofh · 2013-02-20 08:22 · Score: 5, Funny

If you block *.com you should get a lot of it.
Re:Okay.... this is a new one. by Anonymous Coward · 2013-02-20 08:23 · Score: 5, Funny

What the heck is a "watering hole attack"?
It's where troopers metaphorically attack a swagman by a billabong (the 'watering hole') causing him to leap to his death and subsequently haunt the area. I won't go into detail on how this applies in relation to computer security, but I'm sure you get the gist of it.