News: New Malware in iOS is discovered that could cause serious problem

Malware are always been part of any computer today, they are consider to a disease in any system that computer run. And today smartphones also are been affected by this malwares. From Android power to iOS device, malwares always find a way to attack.

Today, a new iOS malware named “AceDeceiver”, which been uncovered by a security firm “Palo Alto Network”. According to them this new malware, targets any non-jailbroken iOS device via a flaw in Apples DRM mechanism.

This new threat manages to get into an iOS device without having to dupe any certification process, said by Palo Alto Networks.

Palo Alto Networks blog post tells “What makes AceDeceiver different from previous iOS malware is that instead of abusing enterprise certificates as some iOS malware has over the past two years, AceDeceiver manages to install itself without any enterprise certificate at all.”

This new malware “AceDeceiver” is abusing the a fatal flaw in Apple’s DRM protection mechanism named FairPlay via technique called “FairPlay Man in the Middle”, which will enable the attackers to install malicious apps in a iOS device while bypassing Apple’s built in security.

Users of iOS device can’t know whether they infected or not, only it tells that a new app icon will appear in the home screen.

Between July 2015 and February 2016 there are three different iOS apps in AceDeceiver family were in the Apple’s App Store, which all of them claims to be just an ordinary wallpaper.

Palo Alto notes that since this three apps had been remove from the App Store, still it could do serious damage. Apple just clean up their App Store back in February for this apps.

AceDeceiver just targeting those iOS device in China yet, said by Palo Alto Networks. Also they have notified Apple about this serious malware, but no patched yet release.