Friday, November 6, 2015

iTunes App Store contains 2846 vulnerable apps – Portable Gear

November 6, 2015 – FireEye discovered that apps that were using mobi saga SDK (software development kit) from adSage, a Chinese advertising firm, secretly backdoors opened on iOS devices. adSage was used by iOS developers to show ads within their apps.

Through the backdoor was in theory for hackers simple as possible to make screenshots, audio record, to determine geolocation details, read files / create / edit / delete, retrieve saved passwords, open URLs, launch apps, encrypting data and apps from non-official Apple sources sideload.

Apple iPhone 6S
Apple iPhone 6S

Volgens FireEye contained the iTunes App Store apps 2846 with such vulnerable backdoor. Apple has the apps since been removed. FireEye however, says that in the time that they affected SDK has monitored no abuse of backdoors is made: no kind of malicious functionality or unusual communication was detected

FireEye says it is unclear whether the. Backdoors are aware dooradSage made or have been created by a malicious third party

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