App Store: malware and DRM bug

Central to the strategy of Apple around distributing applications for iOS, the App Store is known for its strict policy. Particular, an intransigence with regard to applications that have citizenship.

Surprise therefore, an application has managed to slip through the net. According to Kaspersky Lab malware which points to the application called "Find and Call". Insidiously, it recovers the contacts of a user and send them to a remote server.

The action is triggered if the user wants to find friends in their address book. The information collected is used for spamming (emails, SMS) among contacts as a decoy a trusted source (number display the user's mobile "infected").

The spam message simply provide a link to click to download the application Find and Call a priori which target mainly Russian users.

This malicious application has also been spotted on Google Play for Android devices. She was removed from the App Store and Google Play.

This intrusion into the App Store was announced almost simultaneously that a problem that affected several applications. Some of them were considered corrupt, resulting in failure after a download from the App Store.

This problem has been corrected. According to Apple (AllThingsD), it has affected a small number of users and evoke a "temporary problem with a server" that generated a defective DRM code for "a few applications that have been downloaded."

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