Apple is reportedly very busy cleaning up malware that have become infected applications of the App Store, from the first big one attack on the iOS software platform, as reported by Reuters.
Several iOS apps, like the WeChat, Chinese taxi app Didi Kuaidi, card scanner CamCard, and others were found to contain malware code.
According to the security company Palo Alto Networks, malware could crawl user data, steal URLs, read and write user data from the clipboard, say the passwords.
As you can see, the myth of the "invincible" Apple is gone!
The apps code appears to have been developed with XcodeGhost, a fake version Apple's Xcode software used to create iOS and Mac apps.
Apple spokeswoman Christine Monaghan told Reuters:
We have deleted App Store apps that we know are created with this fake software. We work with developers to make sure they use the correct version of Xcode to develop their applications.
Security company Palo Alto Networks said it has not detected any signs indicating data theft or other damage as a result of the attack.
The security firm also said developers using XocdeGhost instead of an official Apple tool downloaded it from a server in China.
The most frightening of this story is that many reputable malware-infected applications have been able to pass Apple's code controls and go up to Apple Store completely unnoticed.
Let's mention that Apple and her friends were very proud of the security of the software distributed by the company's store.
