'WireLurker' Malware Targets iPhone and iPad (no, really!)

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It’s not very often you hear about malware targeting iOS, but security researchers in Silicon Valley said on Wednesday they’ve spotted new malicious software doing just that.

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Although it appears to be spreading through a third-party OS X app store in China and consequently largely confined to that country, the development could be a taste of things to come for iDevice owners in other parts of the world if similarly designed malware is launched by other cybercriminals, or even the same group.

Palo Alto Networks said the one it’s uncovered, called ‘WireLurker’, loads onto iPhones and iPads when the device is connected via USB to a Mac computer onto which an infected OS X app has already been downloaded.

Read more: http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/wirelurker-malware-targets-ios-users/#ixzz3IImCRCxd

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