What Is Unflod.dylib? Malicious iOS Jailbreak Software Steals Apple ID And Passwords

  • 19 April 2014
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A new piece of malware is making its way around jailbroken Apple Inc. (Nasdaq:AAPL) iOS devices, attempting to steal Apple IDs and passwords.
The malicious piece of software, “Unflod.dylib,” was discovered on some jailbroken Apple iOS devices on Thursday by Reddit users after a user complained that the file was causing apps such as Snapchat and Google Hangouts to crash constantly. Soon after the thread was started, several developers in the Reddit jailbreak community told the user to not touch the software, which they suspected was malware.
When the jailbreak developers inspected the “Unflod.dylib” file, they discovered that the malicious software captures Apple IDs and passwords from Internet sessions that use Secure Socket Layer (SSL) to encrypt communications and then sends the login information to the Internet Protocol (IP) address “23.88.10.4.”
 
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