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Facebook, Apple hacks traced to infected iPhone development site. Here's what you can do

Facebook, Apple hacks traced to infected iPhone development site. Here's what you can do | Apple, Mac, iOS4, iPad, iPhone and (in)security... | Scoop.it
Reports suggest that both Facebook and Apple employees—and likely others, including Twitter—visited an infected Web site laden with malware, which exploited a vulnerability in Java. Now the cause has been identified, here's what you can do.

 

 

 

The root cause is reportedly one iPhone development Web site that became infected with malware, which was then able to dump its malicious payload on vulnerable machines. If those infected machines were connected then to a corporate network, that network will likely have been infected.

 

===> It's absolutely vital that you do not visit this site in any way, shape or form as it may still contain active malware that could lead to infection. <===

 

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The root cause is reportedly one iPhone development Web site that became infected with malware, which was then able to dump its malicious payload on vulnerable machines. If those infected machines were connected then to a corporate network, that network will likely have been infected.


===> It's absolutely vital that you do not visit this site in any way, shape or form as it may still contain active malware that could lead to infection. <===

 

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Backdoor:OSX/DevilRobber.A - F-Secure Weblog : News from the Lab

Backdoor:OSX/DevilRobber.A - F-Secure Weblog : News from the Lab | Apple, Mac, iOS4, iPad, iPhone and (in)security... | Scoop.it
F-Secure Security Labs brings you the latest online security news from around the world. Ensure that you are up-to-date with the latest online threats to guarantee your online wellbeing.

 

We recently analyzed DevilRobber.A, a Mac OS X malware that has both backdoor and trojan-like capabilities. All the samples we've collected so far were from torrents uploaded by a single user account on The Pirate Bay website:

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