{"id":9965,"date":"2015-09-23T09:00:09","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T13:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/?p=9965"},"modified":"2017-09-24T08:27:59","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T12:27:59","slug":"xcodeghost-compromises-apps-in-app-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/xcodeghost-compromises-apps-in-app-store\/9965\/","title":{"rendered":"Allegedly 40 apps on App Store are infected"},"content":{"rendered":"

A worm was found in the safe garden of Apple. About 40 iOS apps are now being cleaned out of the App Store because they turned out to be infected with malicious code, which had been designed to build a botnet out of Apple devices.<\/p>\n

\"XcodeGhost<\/a><\/p>\n

The malware XcodeGhost affected dozens of apps, including: WeChat app (600+ million users), NetEase\u2019s music downloading app, business card scanner CamCard, and Didi Kuaidi\u2019s Uber-like car hailing app. To make matters worse, the Chinese versions of Angry Birds 2 was infected \u2013 is nothing sacred anymore?<\/p>\n

Apple spends a lot of time and effort to monitor each and every app in the Apple Store. These efforts set App Store apart from Google Play and third-party stores, which were literally stalked by malicious software (at least until Google launched it\u2019s own malware scanning system in 2014).<\/p>\n

Against this background, September 2015 seems to be especially unsuccessful for Apple as experts found malware that targeted jailbroken devices and everybody spoke about the \u201cbiggest theft ever involving Apple accounts<\/a>,<\/u>\u201d and now Palo Alto Networks company has found compromised software<\/a> on the App Store.<\/p>\n

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XcodeGhost #iOS<\/a> Malware Contained: https:\/\/t.co\/pBYDo6wMJI<\/a> via @threatpost<\/a> #apple<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/0DHpiHBMy8<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Kaspersky (@kaspersky) September 21, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n