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Number of XcodeGhost-Infected iOS Apps Rises

Posted by timothy on from the sometimes-they-come-back dept.

An anonymous reader writes: As the list of apps infected with the XcodeGhost malware keeps expanding, Apple, Amazon and Baidu are doing their best to purge their online properties of affected apps, malicious Xcode installers, and C&C servers used by the attackers to gather the stolen information and control the infected apps/devices. China-based jailbreaking Pangu Team claims that the number of infected app is higher than 3,400, and have offered for download a free app that apparently detects the Trojanized apps.

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  1. Re:Next... by MobileTatsu-NJG · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The Fandroid response to is that it's great that they have the freedom to have malware. They make it sound like they have all this extra choice but when half a million Android zombie bots appears in China that's obviously the fault of all those morons that had extra choic available to them.

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    "I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)

  2. Re: Still better than that malware Android by Karlt1 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So does that "freedom" come with the ability to update the OS the day a new version is released?

    Without waiting on the carrier?

    And the manufacturer?

    For up to four years after you bought the phone?