{"id":54325,"date":"2012-07-06T12:12:30","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T10:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=54325"},"modified":"2012-07-06T12:18:57","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T10:18:57","slug":"app-store-gets-first-trojan-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/54325-app-store-gets-first-trojan-app.html","title":{"rendered":"App Store gets first trojan app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the impressions that the iOS store is invulnerable to trojans, a new malware app has found its way onto the app store.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFind and Call\u201d is a Russian app which first looked harmless, but has turned out to be a trojan that uploads users contact lists to a server, which then sends out SMS spam.<\/p>\n<p>The app initially asks users to fill out their email and user information, but doesn\u2019t check for validity once entered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFind and Call\u201d has been removed from the iOS App Store, although many users have claimed that it\u2019s still searchable.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first malicious app that has found its way through Apple\u2019s approval process.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/apple\/2012\/07\/find-and-call-app-becomes-first-trojan-to-appear-on-ios-app-store\/\" target=\"_blank\">Arstechnica<\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/54307-virus-could-take-out-around-250000-pcs.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Virus could take out around 250,000 PCs<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/53259-flame-virus-can-sabotage-computers-symantec.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Flame virus can sabotage computers: Symantec<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/53523-beware-free-public-wi-fi-kaspersky.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Beware free public Wi-Fi: Kaspersky<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/quick-news\/54225-megaupload-shutdown-was-joe-bidens-idea.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Megaupload shutdown was Joe Biden\u2019s idea<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First instance of iOS App Store Malware<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340900,"featured_media":48574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[2412,13151,13149,13145,13147],"class_list":["post-54325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-app-store","tag-apple-trojan","tag-find-and-call","tag-ios-virus","tag-trojan-virus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54325"}],"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\/340900"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54337,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54325\/revisions\/54337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}