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<\/a>WeChat is one of China’s most popular chat apps, and is also used outside the country to a lesser extent<\/p>\nInfected applications includes Tencent’s hugely popular WeChat app, NetEase’s music downloading app and Didi Kuaidi’s Uber-like car hailing app.<\/p>\n
Some of the affected apps – including the business card scanner CamCard – are also available outside China.<\/p>\n
“We’ve removed the apps from the App Store that we know have been created with this counterfeit software,” said Apple spokeswoman Christine Monaghan.
\n“We are working with the developers to make sure they’re using the proper version of Xcode to rebuild their apps,” said Christine Monaghan.<\/p>\n
On its official WeChat blog, Tencent said the security issue affected an older version of its app – WeChat 6.2.5 – and that newer versions were not affected.<\/p>\n
It added that an initial investigation showed that no data theft or leakage of user information had occurred.<\/p>\n
Analysis: Dave Lee, North America technology reporter<\/p>\n
Apple China storeImage copyrightApple<\/p>\n
In Apple’s walled garden App Store, this sort of thing shouldn’t happen.<\/p>\n
The company goes to great lengths, and great expense, to sift through each and every submission to the store. Staff check for quality, usability and, above all else, security.<\/p>\n
The Apple App Store is generally considered a safe haven as the barrier to entry is high – there’s only been a handful of instances of malware found on iOS apps, compared to Google’s Play store which for a while was regarded as something of a “Wild West” for apps (until they introduced their own malware-scanning system too).<\/p>\n
It makes this attack all the more surprising, as it looks like two groups of supposedly informed people have been caught out.<\/p>\n
Firstly developers, who security researchers say were duped into using counterfeit software to build their apps, creating the right conditions for the malware to be applied.<\/p>\n
And secondly, Apple’s quality testers, who generally do a very good job in keeping out nasties, but in this case couldn’t detect the threat. 21 September 2015 Apple has said it is t … Continue reading
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