Vulnerabilities Leave iTunes, Apple's App Store Open to Script Injection

Apple is reportedly aware of and is in the middle of fixing a pair of vulnerabilities that exist in iTunes and the App Store. If exploited, researchers claim an attacker could inject malicious script into the application side of the vulnerable module or function. Vulnerability Lab’s Benjamin Kunz...

China Orders Apple to Monitor App Store Users and Track their Identities

China has long been known for its strict censorship which makes it difficult for foreign technology companies to do business in the world’s most populous country of over 1.35 billion people. Now, the new law issued by the Chinese government will expand its strict Internet monitoring efforts into...

Pwned by Vpon

Vpon is one of many mobile ad SDKs marketed towards mainland Chinese and Taiwanese developers and app users. Recently, FireEye mobile security researchers identified a branch of Vpon ad SDK on iOS containing code that allows a malicious actor be it the app developer or the SDK creator to remotely...

SandJacking Attack Puts iOS Devices At Risk to Rogue Apps

Apple has yet to patch a vulnerability disclosed during last week’s Hack in the Box hacker conference in Amsterdam that allows an attacker with physical access—even on the latest versions of iOS—to swap out legitimate apps with malicious versions undetected on the device. Researcher Chilik Tamir ...

Banking Trojan Outwits Google Play Malware Scanner

Google Play’s first line of defense against malware was circumvented by attackers who managed to sneak a malicious app called “Black Jack Free” into the official app store. The app was discovered by Lookout Security and removed by Google last week. Lookout estimates that 5,000 people downloaded t...

Samsung's SmartThings platform is explosive new vulnerabilities, can trigger the fire alarm-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

The researchers found that Samsung's SmartThings platform, there are multiple vulnerabilities for the attacker to invade a victim's home the door open. ! Security research team found in Samsung SmartThings platform in the presence of a plurality of security vulnerability for the network attacker ...

Apple iOS 9.3 S/Plus – touch password bypass vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

! Description iOS is developed by Apple Phoneoperating system, published in 2 0 0 7 years use on the iPhone and iPod Touch, and has begun to extend to other Apple devices such as the iPad and Apple TV. With Microsoft's Windows Phone Windows CEand Google's Android systems, Apple does not authorize...

Forage Plow Farming Harvester - Dynamic Code Loading, External URLs, Native code usage vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Forage Plow Farming Harvester published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

Mobile App Store - Customized SSL, Dynamic Code Loading, External URLs vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Mobile App Store published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

Rogue Chinese iOS App Removed from App Store

Apple removed an iOS application from its Chinese iTunes App Store that allowed users of non-jailbroken iOS devices to install pirated and jailbroken apps. Researchers at Palo Alto Networks, who discovered the rogue application, said the app was not malicious, but presented a serious security ris...

Thousands of App Store games and App Store security vulnerability susceptible to hacker attacks-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

A leading network security company released research report, Apple's App Store has more than 1 0 0 0 app there is a security vulnerability, susceptible to hack attacks. A product called JSPatch used to help developers modify the application software, a security vulnerability exists, which makes i...

Warning — Popular 'Hot Patching' Technique Puts iOS Users At Risk

Do you know?… Any iOS app downloaded from Apple’s official App Store has an ability to update itself from any 3rd-party server automatically without your knowledge. Yes, it is possible, and you could end up downloading malware on your iPhone or iPad. Unlike Google, Apple has made remarkable effor...

Hot or Not? The Benefits and Risks of iOS Remote Hot Patching

Introduction Apple has made a significant effort to build and maintain a healthy and clean app ecosystem. The essential contributing component to this status quo is the App Store, which is protected by a thorough vetting process that scrutinizes all submitted applications. While the process is...

Xcode 7 Bitcode workflow and Security Assessment-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

With Xcode 7, Apple is Xcode adds a new feature Bitcode 【1】： ! New features often mean new attack surface. This article first describes what is Bitcode and Bitcode workflow in the familiar with the Bitcode of the workflow, the next step is to assess the Bitcode related to the attack surface, and...

iBackDoor: High-Risk Code Hits iOS Apps

Introduction FireEye mobile researchers recently discovered potentially “backdoored” versions of an ad library embedded in thousands of iOS apps originally published in the Apple App Store. The affected versions of this library embedded functionality in iOS apps that used the library to display...

Chinese Mobile Ad Library Backdoored to Spy on iOS Devices

Versions of a popular Chinese mobile ad library have been backdoored with capabilities that can be used to surreptitiously record audio and steal data stored on thousands of iOS devices. Researchers at FireEye said today they have found 17 backdoored versions of the mobiSage SDK versions 5.3.3 to...

XcodeGhost Malware Supports iOS9

New samples of XcodeGhost, malware targeting iOS devices, have surfaced beyond the borders of China with new support for iOS9 and obfuscation techniques making it that much harder to detect. iOS9 is only a few weeks old and included new security measures that allowed for only secure HTTPS...

More than 250 iOS Apps Caught Using Private APIs to Collect Users' Private Data

Apple is cleaning up its iTunes App Store again – for the third time in two months – following another flood of iOS apps that secretly collect users’ personal information. Researchers discovered more than 250 iOS apps that were violating Apple's App Store privacy policy, gathering personal...

Apple to Remove Apps Using Private APIs

Apple said it will remove 256 misbehaving apps from its App Store that were using private APIs to pull personal and device information that would allow a user to be tracked. SourceDNA, an analytics company that specializes in studying the iOS and Android mobile app stores, privately disclosed to...

Apple Kicks Out some Malicious Ad-Blocker Apps from its Online Store

Apple has removed several apps from its official iOS App Store that have the ability to compromise encrypted connections between the servers and the end-users. Apple has officially said: We have removed a "few" apps from the iOS App Store that could install root certificates and allow monitoring...