Up to 14 apps could infect with Malware
Apple is not going through its best streak. A few days ago we learned about its stock market crash and paralysis of shares due to it Also very recently, we learned that a malicious app had been detectedand a fake app in the App Store
14 Retro-Style Games Could Contain Malware for iPhone and iPad
Well, that doesn't end there, since it has just been learned that more than ten applications from the App Store have been compromised in terms of security, having had access to malicious code that could affect users who had downloaded them.
The malware they would have been affected by is called Golduck . This malware was and is very present in different games that can be downloaded from the Android application store but, apparently, it has also reached iOS, also in the form of games.
One of the applications with connection to Golduck
Specifically, it affects a total of 14 games on the App Store which are all retro classics. That they belong to this category is no coincidence. And it is not, since many users of mobile devices look for the games they played as children in the application stores.
Applications as such do not contain malicious code. In other words, they have not been developed with the intention of stealing data or executing unauthorized actions on the device, two actions carried out by the Golduck malware.
What happens is that they contain a back door that connects to the server that can issue and spread the malware. In other words, although it hasn't happened yet, if someone with not very good intentions wanted to infect millions of iOS devices with Golduck , they could do so if the users had the affected games installed, which are the following:
Let's hope that Apple takes action soon, but in the meantime, we advise you not to download any of them and, if you have one installed, uninstall it as soon as possible.
