Monday, September 21, 2015

Apple Store, now with over 300 app hacker attack infected – businessandtech.com

Apple Store, now with over 300 app hacker attack infected

By now all the big companies have to deal with dangers daily coming from the online world: if once you feared frauds and scams, today you are afraid of attacks hackers, that within seconds can frustrate the work of years.

In the last hours a hacker attack was made scored against Apple, which is certainly not a newcomer to the field of technology, but that it is seen to infect its Apple Store with harmful malware to users.

In recent days, the researchers Palo Alto Networks had revealed details of XcodeGhost, a malware that can infect applications for iPhone and iPad with a published version of infected and non-official Xcode, Apple software that developers use to create and compile programs for Mac and iOS.

Now the parent company announced it had removed infected applications for your phone and tablet in the first breach scale never identified. Had previously been identified only five programs: this time it seems to have been involved in over 300 even if Cupertino did not give precise figures.

“We have removed the app from the App Store, at least the ones we know are being made with a modified program – said a spokesman for Palo Alto, Christine Monaghan, Reuters -We are working with developers to ensure that they are using the official versions of the program to rewrite their applications. “

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