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Apple had to remove more than 300 malware-infected apps from its app store after the damaged version of its developer tools led to some of Chinese apps that leak the users’ personal information to hackers and outside servers.

Apple’s App Store security has historically been solid.

The breach, which is said to have exposed the vulnerabilities of the App Store, infected applications by luring software developers into using a compromised version of Apple’s developer tool kit, according to Alibaba Mobile Security, the mobile antivirus division of Alibaba...

Xcodeghost was able to infiltrate the apps after software developers were tricked into using compromised versions of Xcode, the developer tool kit of Apple.

However, echoing the release of iOS 9, the launch hasn’t gone exactly to plan, with some users struggling to kit out their wearable with the latest software. These apps use a modified version of the software development kit of Apple, which is known as the Xcode. Among these...

A number of cybersecurity companies including Palo Alto identified that hundreds of verified apps had been infected with a malicious programme, which has been dubbed XcodeGhost, reportsReuters.

Hackers have finally managed to infiltrate Apple’s App Store.

Apple usually distributes the tool itself. “Here we have the walled garden of iTunes being toppled by third- party use of a developer software package being distributed out of China”. Some notable examples are CamCard, WinZip, and WeChat.

On Monday, Apple confirmed that dozens of apps infected with malware had been unwittingly published to the App Store.