US Gov't Issues Alert About iOS "Masque Attack" Threat

Posted by timothy on Thursday November 13, 2014 @10:45AM from the that'll-teach-'em dept.

alphadogg writes Three days after security company FireEye warned of an iPhone/iPad threat dubbed "Masque Attack", the U.S. government has issued a warning of its own about this new risk by malicious third-party apps to Apple iOS devices. US-CERT warned: "This attack works by luring users to install an app from a source other than the iOS App Store or their organizations' provisioning system. In order for the attack to succeed, a user must install an untrusted app, such as one delivered through a phishing link." Revelations of Masque came on the heels of a related exploit (that also threatens Macs) called WireLurker.

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false flag? by Noah+Haders · 2014-11-13 11:10 · Score: 3, Interesting

since when does the govt issue virus alerts? My best guess is that NSA is alarmed by uncrackable iphone encryption, so they're doing everything they can to scare people off their iphones and on to something more easy to control like droid or bby