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Stuff like this happens on iOS all the time and everyone just ignores it because it's mostly sandboxed. Apple is terrible at stopping malware until it ends up i
by swiley 6y ago
Stuff like this happens on iOS all the time and everyone just ignores it because it's mostly sandboxed. Apple is terrible at stopping malware until it ends up in the news.
- ship_it 6y agoSource? Or you just made that up?
- joshuaissac 6y agoHere's an example of 18 such apps from 2019: https://www.wired.com/story/apple-app-store-malware-click-fraud/ https://www.wired.com/story/apple-app-store-malware-click-fr... Another from 2018: https://www.zdnet.com/article/top-mac-anti-adware-software-in-apple-app-store-steals-your-browsing-history/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/top-mac-anti-adware-software-i...
- marcinzm 6y agoThe first didn't cause any user issues as I'm reading it except extra data usage. I don't think it even did it in the background but only when the app was running. So I wouldn't even call it malware. Unlike this Android app which showed ads to users outside the app. The second is Mac not iOS which had a much more relaxed security model.
- joshuaissac 6y agoThe article about the 18 apps says that the ads were running in the background. A Forbes article on the same incident also reports that data was exfiltrated from the infected devices: > the trojan [...] sent data from the infected device to an external command and control server.