First ever iOS trojan discovered — and it’s stealing Face ID data to break into bank accounts
First ever iOS trojan discovered — and it’s stealing Face ID data to break into bank accounts
What you need to know about the dangerous Android banking trojan that's been ported to iPhone
OMG! See this is exactly what Apple said works happen if they were forced to slow side loading. I hope you are all happy!
“Checks notes”: Side loading has not been enabled yet…
… oh
Apple before implementing sideloading:
"We can't let users install unverified apps. Sideloading will make our devices less secure. "
Apple after they're forced to implement sideloading:
"We give users the freedom to install apps from outside the store. The iPhone is as secure as ever. "
I'm sure they're concerned about security, but the main reason is they don't want to give up their cut of any app sales.
I know I'm earning this downvoted spam, but...
This requires you to use enterprise-oriented features that blast you with warnings telling you not to do it. After you ignore those warnings they can install anything they want on your device.
This is basically sideloading for corporations.
And it is exactly an example of what will happen (and be quite common) if regular sideloading and alternative app stores with no Apple validation are forced on us.
It's a problem on Android, already. Banking apps disable themselves if your device is rooted due to malicious Trojans that exploit that feature to gain easy access to your data.
I'm sure they'll make sideloading a miserable enough experience for all involved (but not miserable enough to make it obvious that it's in bad faith and incur the wrath of the EU) that both users and devs will just opt not to do it
This is an actual interesting article that they just ruined with SEO spam links to 'the best ' all over it. Sigh.
A trojan you have to install yourself (by accepting a malicious MDM profile) is not a trojan...
That’s not true. A Trojan is a virus disguised as something else to trick your victim. Am I the only one that messed with their friends with ones like sub7 and stuff like 30 years ago? Lol
I agree with your sentiment, but it's still a Trojan.
It just requires you to bypass all of the "do not do this unless you know what you're doing" warnings to go through the very obviously risky process to be able to install the Trojan.
Do you know how most viruses and Trojans work? Because I can guarantee they don't just show up on your computer magically.
Pegasus
this is why i took all banking apps off my phone. the websites work fine anyway.
I'm sorry for the Apple users, but Apple devices are so restricted, why would you even want to use one?
It all comes down to what you use the device for. I know the apple hate is strong but there’s not a whole lot of different use cases going in to either one other than the ecosystems. Also most android fanatics haven’t even used an iPhone to comment on anything. They do anyway though.
I have used an iPhone for 2 years and getting an Android 6 months ago was a breath of fresh air. I could install any app I wanted, including custom launchers, sms, TTS, etc. I didn't have to sign into a MAGMA account to use the device. I had a headphone jack. I could add a network speed tracked in the status bar. I could actually implement DNS adblocking and it worked. I could install Firefox extensions - a huge thing that's 36% of the reason I'm not going back to iPhone.
Google sells more of my data than Apple
None of them actually sell your data, and both of them have personnalised ads. The difference being one pretends to be a privacy warrior and the other has pretty detailed and granular privacy settings (spoiler, that's not apple). Dont get me wrong, I dont like Google either and they probably collect and actually process personnal data than apple, but both of them are absolutely terrible and both of them absolutely know everything about you. It's just that apple is much better at preserving a good brand image. Though one valid point I could see is that having a phone made by apple reduces the likely number of parties who have access to that data, on android, you often buy a phone from samsung or the others, and then they also have their spyware on theere
I used to install custom ROMs on my android phone and spent days of my life getting everything exactly the way I wanted things.
I ended up with a clunkier version of iOS.
Ultimately I don't need or want an open platform in my pocket. I want to be able to trust that the App Store isn't garbage, and don't want to have to worry about my parents easily installing viruses on their devices.
Because they are so restricted ;-) since i moved my whole family onto it, i cut support time by 90%.