In a paper on AdThief malware for iOS devices, a security researcher explains the mechanism behind the malicious code that managed to steal the revenue from 22 million advertisements, on a total of 75,000 devices.
The information is based on the original research of Claud Xiao who discovered AdThief (also known as Spad) in March 2014. However, the details were scarce at that time, which prompted the new paper from researcher Axelle Apvrille.
The nasty piece works on jailbroken iOS devices on…
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