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Over 3.6M users installed iOS fleeceware from Apple’s App Store

Developers of fleeceware apps are now using the Apple App Store as a distribution platform having already successfully delivered their iOS apps onto over 3.5 million iPhone and iPad devices according to a report from Sophos. […]

03 Apr

Apple Paid $75K For Bugs Letting Sites Hijack iPhone Cameras

Apple has paid a $75,000 bug bounty to a security researcher who chained together three different exploits that could have allowed malicious web sites to use your iPhone camera and microphone without permission. […]

28 Jan

Apple iOS 13.3.1 Released With Fix for Location Tracking

Apple has released iOS 13.3.1 with numerous bug fixes including a new setting that allows you to disable the constant location checks being performed by the iPhone 11 U1 chip. […]

25 Jan

10% of All Macs Shlayered, Malware Cocktail Served

Many people think that malware only targets Windows and that Macs are safe, but a new report shows how a single Apple malware called Shlayer has attacked over 10% of all Apple computers monitored by an antivirus company. […]

15 Jan

iPhones Can Now Double As a Security Key for Google Accounts

Google announced that iPhones running iOS 10 or later can now be used as security keys to protect Google accounts against phishing attacks by verifying sign-ins on Chrome OS, iOS, macOS and Windows 10 devices without pairing. […]

20 Dec

Apple Blackmailed for $100K in iTunes Cards to Avoid ‘Data Leak’

22-year old Londoner Kerem Albayrak was sentenced today after attempting to blackmail Apple by threatening to factory reset 319 million iCloud accounts and selling the users’ data. […]

13 Dec

Apple to Fix Bug That Bypasses Communication Controls for Kids

Apple rolled out the Communication Limits feature in iOS 13.3 on Tuesday with a bug that allows kids to bypass parental controls that prevent them from talking to anyone that is not in the contacts list. […]

24 Oct

iOS Clicker Trojan Malware Found in 17 Apps in Apple’s App Store

More than a dozen iOS apps infected with clicker Trojan malware and distributed via the Apple App Store were found to perform ad fraud-related tasks in the background, using the command and control servers of a similar Android ad fraud campaign. […]

15 Oct

Scammers Use Fake Checkra1n iOS Jailbreak in Click Fraud Campaign

Scammers have already been spotted baiting Apple users using a recently developed iOS jailbreak dubbed checkra1n as the lure in a campaign designed to help the crooks earn money via click-fraud and boost App Store rankings for several apps. […]

10 Oct

Apple Software Update Zero-Day Used by BitPaymer Ransomware

Several companies from the automotive industry were targeted by BitPaymer ransomware operators during August, in attacks that used an Apple zero-day vulnerability impacting the Apple Software Update service bundled with iTunes and iCloud for Windows. […]

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