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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. Detects and exploits by xxxJonBoyxxx · · Score: 3, Interesting

    >> free app that apparently detects the Trojanized apps

    "detects and exploits" probably

  2. Re:Next... by TheRaven64 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This is true. I have an Android phone, and I don't even need to go to some 'app store' thingy download malware, it still (3 months after initial public disclosure) is vulnerable to the Stagefright vulnerability, which Google researchers have shown is exploitable from the browser and allows privileged arbitrary code execution. None of this crap from Apple, where you need user action to install this stuff!

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  3. Re:Still better than that malware Android by gstoddart · · Score: 1, Interesting

    He done got been able to shift yon decimal point and multiplies it by two

    You know, that there exists apps to calculate a tip says that a shocking amount of people can't do this very basic bit of math.

    Apparently there is a significant enough portion of society who need help for this. Hell, I've actually watched people struggle to calculate 10%, which is utterly mind boggling.

    I don't know if people are really that stupid, or just so lazy as to have the same damned effect.

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