Posts tagged with: iPhone

Palo Alto Networks researchers Tongbo Luo and Bo Qu are credited with discovering a new vulnerability (CVE-2015-7066) in OpenGL and Webkit that impacts all of Apple’s major products, including:

Today we are releasing a whitepaper describing how malicious actors are stealing private mobile device data by accessing local backup files stored on PC and Mac computers. We have identified 704 samples of six Trojan, adware and HackTool families for Windows® or Mac® OS X® systems that used this technique to steal data from iOS

Earlier this week we published an analysis of KeyRaider, which is an iOS malware family and a reminder of the risks users take when they choose to jailbreak their mobile devices. Attackers used KeyRaider malware to steal more than 225,000 Apple accounts. KeyRaider targeted only jailbroken Apple devices, primarily through Chinese websites and apps that

Executive Summary Recently, WeipTech was analyzing suspicious Apple iOS tweaks reported by users and found over 225,000 valid Apple accounts with passwords stored on a server. In cooperation with WeipTech, we have identified 92 samples of a new iOS malware family in the wild. We have analyzed the samples to determine the author’s ultimate goal

On September 9, Apple announced that the latest iPhone models would come with a new technology called Apple Pay which allows people to purchase items with their phones, both in stores and online. Many smug Android users looked at the announcement and thought “Sounds like Google Wallet. Welcome to 2011 Apple.” As an individual who

Palo Alto Networks recently found and analyzed a new iOS malware affecting jailbroken iOS devices in the wild. The malware will connect to C&C server, download and execute malicious executable files, hook network APIs to steal user’s Apple ID and password and upload to the attacker’s server, and simulate Apple’s proprietary protocols to buy apps