Under the guise of a popular application in Apple App Store hiding a trojan for WindowsThe malicious code was embedded in the application and was able to "circumvent" anti-virus scanners online store.
July 24 this year at the Apple support forum, users began to report the detection of malicious programs for devices based on Windows, masquerading as a popular application for iOS in the Apple App Store.
According to victims, the virus is hiding under the guise of an application Instaquotes-Quotes Cards for the photo-sharing service Instagram.
According to experts, a malicious program can identify all known anti-virus products for Windows. Researchers have different anti-virus companies agreed that the finding is based on the Trojan malware, detected as early as 2008.
Experts note that the placement of the virus in the Apple App Store was a "strategic mistake" of hackers, since it can not hurt iustroystvam and get into the system operatsonnuyu devices based on Windows OS virus can only be if infotsirovanny iPhone or iPad will be synchronized with the device.
Note that Apple Inc. has responded quickly to the announcement about the virus and blocked the malicious application.
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