Backdoor Malware Targets Apple iPad 196
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An anonymous reader writes "Apple iPad users are being warned of an email-borne threat which could give hackers unauthorised access to the device. The threat arrives via an unsolicited email urging the recipient to download the latest version of iTunes as a prelude to updating their iPad software. Apart from opening up a backdoor, it also tries to read the keys and serial numbers of the software installed on the device, and logs the passwords to any webmail, IM or protected storage accounts."
Re:Wrong wrong wrong... (Score:1, Interesting)
Call me an idiot if you want. But I am an iPhone/iPod developer. Last year I made over $300K on my apps, and last month I made over $125K on JUST iPad versions of my apps.
If buying an iPad so I can write software for it that I can sell it to other "idiots" makes me an idiot, then I'm being an "idiot" all the way to the bank.
What do you do for a living?
Re:Wrong wrong wrong... (Score:3, Interesting)
Yep, and it works great.
This infection is a windows virus that runs on the windows machine, then tries to identify information being sent from the windows machine to the iPad, disguised as an iTunes update. It's a classic man-in-the-middle attack.