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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.

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.

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.

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. This past Sunday, the company revealed it had...

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

The malicious code spread through a counterfeit version of Apple’s Xcode tools used to create apps for its iPhones and iPads, according to the company.

When app developers used phony versions of Xcode, they were unaware they were submitting software containing malicious code along with their apps.