Malware infecting jailbroken iPhones stole 225,000 Apple accounts

A new discovered malware family that preys on jailbroken iPhones has collected login credentials for over 225,000 Apple accounts, creating it one among the biggest Apple account compromises to be caused by malware.

KeyRaider, as the malware family has been dubbed, is distributed through a third-party repository of Cydia, which markets itself as another to Apple's official App Store. Malicious code sneakily enclosed with Cydia apps is making issues for people in China and a minimum of seventeen different countries, together with France, Russia, Japan, and the UK. Not only has it pilfered account information for 225,941 Apple accounts, it's additionally disabled some infected phones till users pay a ransom, and it's created unauthorized charges against some victims accounts.

Researchers with Palo Alto Networks worked with members of the Chinese iPhone community Weiphone ...

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