Apple cleans up elusive malware in the iOS App Store
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Apple's iOS app store is a notorious walled garden, but it seems to have sprung a leak. Reuters reports that Macs belonging to certain developers contracted some malware dubbed Xcode Ghost that, in turn, infected iOS binaries compiled on those machines. Some of the infected apps made it onto the App Store.
It seems the cause of the outbreak was an infected version of Xcode downloaded from a server in China, rather than directly from Apple. Palo Alto Networks Director ...