Apple removed the infected applications App Store – El Diario de Yucatan

         

     

BEIJING (AP) .- After detecting an unusual breach of security, Apple Inc. withdrew some of their applications App Store after developers in China were deceived and used embedded software tools malicious code.

The company did not elaborate on which companies were affected, but Tencent Ltd. said its popular app WeChat was affected and that the company issued a corrected after detecting the malware version. Press Reports Local reported that other affected included banks, an airline and a popular music service.

The malicious code spread through a fake version of the Xcode tools Apple used to develop apps iPhone and iPad, according to the company. He said the false tools spread when developers obtained them from “unreliable sources” rather than directly with the company.

The malware collects information from infected devices and up to external servers, According to Palo Alto Networks, a US software company.

Last week, security researchers Alibaba Group , the e-commerce giant, were the first to report malware and he was nicknamed XcodeGhost.

The creators of malicious software capitalized on the frustration caused by the locks imposed by the authorities in China LAN, which hinder access to Apple and other foreign sites. This made Some people prefer to use copies of foreign software or documents uploaded to websites in China to speed up access.

“Sometimes speed networks is very when large files slow Apple’s servers are down, “he wrote Xiao Claud researcher Palo Alto Networks, on the site of the company. Due to the enormous weight of the XCode file, “some Chinese developers chose to download the package from other sources or obtain copies of colleagues.”

Companies with apps that were affected include Didi taxi service kuaidi, the bank Citic Industrial Bank, the airline China Southern Airlines and NetEase music service, newspaper Yangcheng Evening News.

The incident is only the sixth known code Malicious which know happened Apple review process for products in its App Store, according to Xiao

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