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Maybe not this malware, but there is other malware on the Play Store. https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/google-play-store-malware-hits-42-apps-with-8-millio
by hello_friendos 7y ago
Maybe not this malware, but there is other malware on the Play Store.
https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/google-play-store-malware-hits-42-apps-with-8-million-downloads/ https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/google-play-store-malwa...
- stjohnswarts 7y agoOf course there is, just like on the Apple web store.
- afro88 7y agoLinks please
- zik 7y agoThere are some just above in this thread.
- dkonofalski 7y agoThose aren't links to malware. Those are links to stories about malware that was removed from the App Store. Kinda makes the opposite point of what you're implying, doesn't it?
- Godel_unicode 7y agohttps://www.wired.com/story/apple-app-store-malware-click-fraud/ https://www.wired.com/story/apple-app-store-malware-click-fr... https://us.norton.com/internetsecurity-emerging-threats-ios-malware-xcodeghost-infects-millions-of-apple-store-customers.html https://us.norton.com/internetsecurity-emerging-threats-ios-...
- scarface74 7y agoFrom the article While they were live, they didn’t steal data or gain control of a victim’s device, ....And while the worst effects you’d feel as a victim in this case would be a quicker battery drain and a higher data bill, this latest wave of iOS malware is most notable not for what it does but for how it got there. Which is a far cry from an unremovable app. It didn’t even get outside of the sandbox and wasn’t an escalation of privilege attack.
- Godel_unicode 7y agoThe comments upstream are debating whether there's been malware on the app store. There has. Goal posts aside, it's worth remembering that no app review process is infallible, including Apple's.
- scarface74 7y agoThe actual submission is about apps that install an unremovable piece of software that cause an escalation of privilege. The article you posted is about apps that can be removed just like any other software, don’t escape the sandbox and the most harm they can do is use an above normal amount of CPU and data.
- Chris_Chambers 7y agoThe Apple web store only sells official Apple hardware shipped directly from Apple. Put more thought into your posts. This isn’t reddit.