iPhone MALWARE YISPECTER SPREAD BY CHINESE ADVERTISING COMPANY HIGHLIGHTS APPLE*S GROWING SECURITY PROBLEM
iPhone MALWARE YISPECTER SPREAD BY CHINESE ADVERTISING COMPANY HIGHLIGHTS APPLE*S GROWING SECURITY PROBLEM
@ The view that Apple*s iOS is a malware free zone is quickly eroding as the latest piece of malicious software targeting iPhone and and iPad users highlights a growing problem for a © platform once dubbed **the security innovation of the decade.//**
@ Within a month of the discovery of the XcodeGhost malware affecting thousands of iOS apps and hundreds of millions of users, researchers have discovered YiSpecter, a piece of © malware which disguises itself as a free porn app, has been in the wild for at least 10 months, users four different methods of infecting victims* devices.//
@ XcodeGhost was seen as the first major breach of Apple*s typically tight App Store security and came 10 months after the discovery of WireLurker which targeted both © Apple*s mobile and desktop users.//
@ Most iOS malware to date has targeted jailbroken devices, but YiSpecter, reportedly developed by a Chinese mobile advertising company, affects non jailbroken devices too.//© The malware also has built in persistence meaning that even if you manually delete the malware, it will automatically re appear.// Along with the unique methods of distributing the malware, the authors of YiSpecter also **abuses private APIs in the iOS system to implement malicious functionalities.//**