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iOS Espionage Tool Discovered

February 06, 2015 by Marc Handelman in All is Information, Crime, Espionage, Extortion, Hardware Security, Information Security, Malware, Vulnerabilities

In a typically fascinating post, over at TrendLabs, written by Lambert Sun, Brooks Hong (Mobile Threat Analysts) and Feike Hacquebord (Senior Threat Researcher), we learn of a recently  discovered iOS espionage tool. Ladies and Gentlemen, Girls and Boys, behold, the money quote:

"We found two malicious iOS applications in Operation Pawn Storm. One is called XAgent (detected as IOS_XAGENT.A) and the other one uses the name of a legitimate iOS game, MadCap (detected as IOS_ XAGENT.B). After analysis, we concluded that both are applications related to SEDNIT. The obvious goal of the SEDNIT-related spyware is to steal personal data, record audio, make screenshots, and send them to a remote command-and-control (C&C) server. As of this publishing, the C&C server contacted by the iOS malware is live." -  via TrendMicro's TrendLabs blog authors Lambert Sun, Brooks Hong and Feike Hacquebord.

 

February 06, 2015 /Marc Handelman
All is Information, Crime, Espionage, Extortion, Hardware Security, Information Security, Malware, Vulnerabilities
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