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Cyber Risks · Unit 42 Palo Alto Networks

Wire Lurker: A New Era in OS X and iOS Malware

Summary: Unit 42 published research on WireLurker, a malware family that trojanized 467 OS X applications on the Maiyadi App Store, a third-party Mac app store in China, and those infected applications were downloaded over 356,104 times in six months. WireLurker monitors any iOS device connected via USB to an infected OS X computer and installs third-party or automatically generated malicious applications onto the device, regardless of whether it is jailbroken.

Bottom line: The infection vector is a USB cable: any iPhone or iPad plugged into an infected Mac gets malicious apps pushed onto it whether or not it is jailbroken, and the 467 trojanized applications saw more than 356,104 downloads before this was documented.

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