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Monday 31 August 2015

Jailbreak attack reportedly stole more than 225,000 Apple logins



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Researchers for Weiptech and Palo Alto networks revealed today that more than 225,000 valid Apple accounts were stolen from jailbroken users without their knowledge. The credentials were stolen via malware that was distributed using the popular jailbreak tool Cydia, which makes it easy to install tweaks and researchers report that accounts from 18 countries were stolen. More than half the email addresses discovered used Tenecent’s email services, though qq.com, 163.com and icloud.com were the next most popular. The malware, called KeyRaider, uploaded stolen logins to a server which contained vulnerabilities itself. The researchers reverse-engineered the hack and attacked the control server where the data was…

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