AceDeceiver iOS Trojan Abuses Apple's FairPlay DRM System to Infect Users

  • 16 March 2016
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Tactic works against non- and jailbroken devices

 
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Mar 16, 2016 17:15 GMT  ·  By Catalin Cimpanu Palo Alto Networks revealed today the existence of a new iOS trojan called AceDeceiver that can infect both jailbroken and non-jailbroken devices, leveraging a design flaw in Apple's FairPlay DRM system.
 
This design flaw is not new, it's called FairPlay Man-in-the-Middle, and was observed in the wild for the first time in February 2013, used for spreading pirated apps, and later presented in depth at the 23rd USENIX Security Symposium. AceDeceiver marks the first time a FairPlay MitM attack was used to spread malware.
 
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Lets hope that Apple can find a fix for this before it hits the US.
 
Which this article saids the attack technique they’re exploiting will not be easy for Apple to fix.
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And that is another one in the eye for the apparently 'invulnerable' OS...LOL

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