How to Avoid the ‘Biggest’ iPhone Malware App Attack Yet

[Musky]

Contrary to popular belief, The Apple OS is as vulnerable to malware attacks as Windows is, Here is a bad one that is spreading rapidly through iPhones, iPads and MACs.

 

New malware called Wirelurker may have affected hundreds of thousands users

 

Hackers are targeting Apple mobile and desktop users with malicious software in order to damage or steal information, a Silicon Valley security company said Wednesday. The malware has been targeting the iPhone iOS systems for the past six months.

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Palo Alto Networks, the company that has discovered the attack, nicknamed the hacking campaign “Wirelurker” and called it “the biggest in scale we have ever seen” against Apple mobile and desktop users. Wirelurker has infected over 450 apps that are sold through a third-party iPhone application store in China called the Maiyadi App Store. The infected apps have been downloaded over 356,104 times in the last six months, Palo Alto Networks said, and “may have impacted hundreds of thousands of users.”

Read more:

http://time.com/3560875/iphone-malware-wirelurker/

[Mykyl]

If you stick to the legitimate way of getting software, from the official Apple App Store, you don't have an issue.

So not an issue at all really.

It's always a risk to get software from non legitimate sites... Pirate sites have always been the same regardless of the OS

Edited November 6, 2014 by Mykyl