Apple pulls infected Chinese apps from iTunes app store (article)
- Security researchers Palo Alto Networks discovered that 39 iPhones and iPads were infected with malware.
- One of the infected apps was WeChat, the super-popular Chinese mobile messaging app used by 600 million people.
- All of the affected apps were developed in China, and they all used a modified version of Apple's software development kit known as Xcode, which had been manipulated by hackers.
- Downloading items from Apple while in China can be painfully slow. People in China often try to download apps and tools from alternate websites and servers, it can cause bitter consequences; like hackers and malware.
- If you have WeChat you should update it to the latest version because the last version contained the malware.



