In case you missed it, Apple recently published its list of the top 25 iOS apps affected by China’s XcodeGhost malware.
“We always recommend developers use the free, secure tools we provide them — including Xcode — to ensure they’re creating the most secure apps for App Store customers,” Apple explains. “Some developers downloaded counterfeit versions of Xcode that have been infected with malware and created apps that were just as infected. Apple incorporates technologies like Gatekeeper expressly to prevent non-App Store and/or unsigned versions of programs, including Xcode, from being installed. Those protections had to have been deliberately disabled by the developer for something like XcodeGhost to successfully install.”
Why only 25? Yes, more than those were impacted. But Apple noted that “after the top 25 impacted apps, the number of impacted users drops significantly,” adding that it is working directly with developers to get affected apps back up for download.
Here are the top 25 apps that were affected by XcodeGhost:
- DiDi Taxi
- 58 Classified – Job, Used Cars, Rent
- Gaode Map – Driving and Public Transportation
- Railroad 12306
- Flush
- China Unicom Customer Service (Official Version)
- CarrotFantasy 2: Daily Battle
- Miraculous Warmth
- Call Me MT 2 – Multi-server version
- Angry Bird 2 – Yifeng Li’s Favorite
- Baidu Music – A Music Player that has Downloads, Ringtones, Music Videos, Radio, and Karaoke
- DuoDuo Ringtone
- NetEase Music – An Essential for Radio and Song Download
- Foreign Harbor – The Hottest Platform for Oversea Shopping
- Battle of Freedom (The MOBA mobile game)
- One Piece – Embark (Officially Authorized)
- Let’s Cook – Receipes [sic]
- Heroes of Order & Chaos – Multiplayer Online Game
- Dark Dawn – Under the Icing City (the first mobile game sponsored by Fan BingBing)
- I Like Being With You
- Himalaya FM (Audio Book Community)
- CarrotFantasy
- Flush HD
- Encounter – Local Chatting Tool
