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📅 March 12, 2010

Botnet Malware Hoax Gets 8000 iPhone And Android Users

Two researchers at TippingPoint’s Digital Vaccine Group have succeeded in bringing together approximately 8000 iPhone and Android users, into a bonnet experiment to demonstrate the distribution of malware.

Derek Brown and Daniel Tijerina discussed their experiment at the RSA Conference held in San Francisco last week: the main objective was to demonstrate how a weather application for smart phones behaves in a similar manner to traditional malware attacks, with the ability to steal information and allowing remote control of the devices.

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📅 February 2, 2010

iPhone Apps Malware Is The Focus Of This Year’s Black Hat Conference

a simple iPhone app is able to store your email address, phone number, keyboard’s cache, WiFi connections and the most recent GPS positions

From Jan. 31 to Feb. 3. is being held in Arlington, Va., this year’s Black Hat conference which unites the best hackers around the world who are committed to pierce the systems in order to enable organizations to improve the safety of their devices. This year they are giving much importance to the iPhone and its AppStore and other platforms such as Andorid. Their focus: malware.

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📅 July 27, 2009

iTunes Seen As Malware by AVG Antivirus

If you use AVG Anti-Virus on Windows (or on a Windows VM), you might want to disable it until they send out a patch for their latest update. According to a rapidly filling Apple Support thread, the latest update flags iTunes.dll and iTunesRegistry.dll as “Trojan horse Small.BOG”. There isn’t a listing for “Trojan horse Small.BOG” on AVG’s website so the flag is somewhat strange.

If you have updated AVG to the latest version available during a local scan, your antivirus may indicate the presence of a Trojan inside the iTunes directory, viewing the file catalog iTunes.dll and iTunesRegistry.dll as Trojan horse Small.BOG

The problem, however, was found by many other people and also the Apple support forum is full of similar reports. If you use Windows, and have encountered the same problem, the only remedy while waiting for a patch for AVG , is to delete the iTunes directory from scanning.