{"id":139184,"date":"2015-09-21T08:32:25","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T06:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=139184"},"modified":"2015-09-21T08:33:36","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T06:33:36","slug":"apple-app-store-suffers-first-major-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/139184-apple-app-store-suffers-first-major-attack.html","title":{"rendered":"Apple App Store suffers first major attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple is cleaning out its iOS App Store to remove malicious iPhone and iPad programs after suffering a large attack. This is according to a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2015\/09\/20\/us-apple-china-malware-idUSKCN0RK0ZB20150920\" target=\"_blank\">report by Reuters<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Apple confirmed the security breach after\u00a0cyber security firms said they found a malicious program called XcodeGhost embedded in hundreds of apps.<\/p>\n<p>XcodeGhost is iOS malware arising from a malicious version of Xcode, Apple&#8217;s tool for developing iOS and OS X apps.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/2015\/09\/malware-xcodeghost-infects-39-ios-apps-including-wechat-affecting-hundreds-of-millions-of-users\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Palo Alto Networks said<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0many popular iOS apps have been infected, including WeChat &#8211; one of the most-used IM applications in the world.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Apple<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/138146-new-larger-apple-ipad-pro-revealed.html\">New larger Apple iPad Pro revealed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/138162-new-apple-tv-the-future-of-television.html\">New Apple TV \u2013 the future of television<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple is cleaning out its iOS App Store to remove malicious iPhone and iPad programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":128596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[36,605,32938,39,1125],"class_list":["post-139184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-active","tag-apple","tag-ios-app-store","tag-ipad","tag-iphone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139194,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139184\/revisions\/139194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}