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How to protect yourself from ‘Masque Attacks’ that replace iOS apps with malware

BurnIconXFollowing the recent finding of the widespread WireLurker malware that allows an infected system to hijack iOS applications and replace contents to convert them into malicious programs, security researchers at FireEye have revealed this as part of a long-standing flaw in iOS that similarly allows apps to be replaced with malware programs.

This vulnerability uses the same enterprise provisioning routines that are used by WireLurker, but the approach Continue reading