16.08.2013 22:50 Uhr, Quelle: Macrumors

Researchers Show How Apple's App Approval Process Can Be Beaten by Malicious Apps

Researchers from Georgia Tech submitted to the App Store and received approval for a malicious app, according to Technology Review. The researchers submitted an innocuous app that included inactive malware-type code hidden from Apple's app approval system. When downloaded onto a test device after the app was approved, the app 'phoned home' and gained a variety of abilities that compromised the host phone. This malware, which the researchers dubbed Jekyll, could stealthily post tweets, send e-mails and texts, steal personal information and device ID numbers, take photos, and attack other apps. It even provided a way to magnify its effects, because it could direct Safari, Apple’s default browser, to a w

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