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DualToy: New Windows Trojan Sideloads Risky Apps to Android and iOS Devices
Over the past two years, we’ve observed many cases of Microsoft Windows and Apple iOS malware designed to attack mobile devices. This attack vector is increasingly popular with mal...
Protecting Your Organization Against Mobile Threats
Mobile has been a disruptive force in information technology and it will only continue to grow. The challenge for businesses is that devices must be secured before they can be used within the enterprise setting...
Pirated iOS App Store’s Client Successfully Evaded Apple iOS Code Review
Apple’s official iOS App Store is well known for its strict code review of any app submitted by a developer. This mandatory policy has become one of the most important mechanisms i...
The Threat Intelligence Research That Mattered to You This Year
Unit 42 did some incredible work in 2015 discovering, analyzing and disclosing malware – some new and others making a reappearance. Take a look below...
iOS Trojan “TinyV” Attacks Jailbroken Devices
In October 2015, we discovered a malicious payload file targeting Apple iOS devices. After investigating, we believe the payload belongs to a new iOS Trojan family that we’re calling “TinyV”. In December 2015,...
BackStab: Mobile Backup Data Under Attack from Malware
Today we are releasing a whitepaper describing how malicious actors are stealing private mobile device data by accessing local backup files stored on PC and Mac computers. We have identified 704 samples of six...
2016 Prediction #2: The “What” Matters More than the “Who” in Mobile Securi...
This is the second in our series of cybersecurity predictions for 2016. Stay tuned for more through the end of the year.
YiSpecter: First iOS Malware That Attacks Non-jailbroken Apple iOS Devices ...
We recently identified a new Apple iOS malware and named it YiSpecter. YiSpecter is different from previously seen iOS malware in that it attacks both...
More Details on the XcodeGhost Malware and Affected iOS Apps
A few days ago, we investigated a new malware called XcodeGhost that modifies Xcode, infects iOS apps and is seen in the App Store. We also found more...
Update: XcodeGhost Attacker Can Phish Passwords and Open URLs through Infec...
On Thursday we posted the initial analysis report on XcodeGhost malware and then found it had infected 39 iOS apps, potentially impacting hundreds of...
Malware XcodeGhost Infects 39 iOS Apps, Including WeChat, Affecting Hundred...
Yesterday we posted an analysis report on a novel malware XcodeGhost that modifies Xcode IDE to infect Apple iOS apps. In the report, we mentioned tha...
Novel Malware XcodeGhost Modifies Xcode, Infects Apple iOS Apps and Hits Ap...
UPDATE: Since this report's original posting on September 17, three additional XCodeGhost updates have been published, available here, here and here.
KeyRaider iOS Malware: How to Keep Yourself Safe
Earlier this week we published an analysis of KeyRaider, which is an iOS malware family and a reminder of the risks users take when they choose to jailbreak their mobile devices.
KeyRaider: iOS Malware Steals Over 225,000 Apple Accounts to Create Free Ap...
Recently, WeipTech was analyzing suspicious Apple iOS tweaks reported by users and found over 225,000 valid Apple accounts with passwords stored on a...
Revealing the Secrets: Advances in Android and iOS Attacks
In recent months, Unit 42, the cyber threat intelligence team at Palo Alto Networks, has encountered several game-changing advances in mobile malware for both iOS and Android. For...
Learn More About WireLurker and the Impact to OS X and iOS
Recently Palo Alto Networks researcher Claud Xiao discovered WireLurker, a new family of Apple OS X and iOS malware with characteristics unseen in any previously documented threats...
Protecting Users from iOS App Provisioning Profile Abuse
Recently, we announced the discovery of WireLurker, a new family of malware that abuses app provisioning profiles to install potentially malicious apps on any iOS device, regardless of whether it is jailbroken....
The Question of WireLurker Attribution: Who Is Responsible?
After news of WireLurker began circulating in handful Chinese-language tech forums over the summer, a Chinese-language technology blogger conducted on...
WireLurker: A New Era in OS X and iOS Malware
Today we published a new research paper on WireLurker, a family of malware targeting both Mac OS and iOS systems for the past six months. We believe that this malware family heralds a new era in malware attacki...
AppBuyer: New iOS Malware Steals Apple ID and Password to Buy Apps
Palo Alto Networks recently found and analyzed a new iOS malware affecting jailbroken iOS devices in the wild. The malware will connect to C&C ser...
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