Tracking the Wire Lurker Arrests
Summary: On November 14, the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau arrested three people - surnamed Chen, Li, and Wang - in connection with WireLurker, malware that infects iOS devices over USB from compromised Mac OS X or Windows computers and installs third-party or malicious apps regardless of jailbreak status. The arrests followed a tip from Qihoo 360, and the third-party app store serving the malware, Maiyadi, was shut down.
Bottom line: WireLurker installed apps on iOS devices whether or not they were jailbroken, and it spread through ordinary USB connections to infected computers - so the arrest of three people and the closure of one app store does not by itself answer how many devices were already loaded before the takedown.
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