According to Miller it was only a demonstration - but it indicates that the safe App Store might not be so safe. With thousands of apps - how many more malicious apps are being downloaded right now!
Amplify’d from www.tgdaily.com
It's not easy to get a malicious app into Apple's heavily guarded and scrutinized App Store, but it is still possible.
Infamous Apple hacker Carlie Miller created an app that was disguised to look like a generic stock market app, telling potential downloaders that it let them monitor their stock prices.
In reality, though, it contained malicious code that could be used to gain limited remote access of the phone and grab sensitive data.
See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/a1hcys
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