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First malware found in Apple's App Store

First malware found in Apple's App Store
07 Iul 2012   •   20:38

An application available for Apple and Google's mobile operating systems steals the user's contacts list for the purposes of text messaging spam, according a report issued this week that claims it is the first malware to appear in Apple's App Store.

The app, called "Find and Call", passes itself off as a mobile phone book application, but users who download and use the app will have all of their contacts uploaded to a remote server, according to a post from the Kaspersky Lab security blogger Denis Maslennikov. Once the app uploads the user's contacts, it sends text messages to all of the contacts that appears to be from the infected phone's number, with a link to download the app.

Maslennikov traced the app's creation to a website for a Singapore-based company, which seeks even more information about visitors, including PayPal information.

This type of malicious software, called a Trojan, has appeared in Android's Google Play store before, Maslennikov reported, but "it's the first case that we've seen malware in the Apple App Store," he wrote.



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