Tag: Apple’s App Store

Apple on alert for Chinese malware in apps

A first-of-its-kind hack attack hits Apple. iPhone and iPad users are vulnerable to malware embedded in popular Chinese apps from Apple’s App Store. WeChat – one of the most popular messaging apps in China – is among dozens of legitimate apps infected with the malicious code. Rather than using the official release of the developer code from Apple’s U.S. servers, developers downloaded the hacked code – dubbed XcodeGhost – from a server in China because […]