CRIM 218 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ransomware, Malware, Xcode
21 Feb 2018
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People eater: comparable to yelp, but for people rather than businesses. App allows users to rate other people from 0-5. People who are rated cannot delete the comments, nor is there any way for them to. If the people who are rated want to read the comments, they have to download the app and join the pecking party. Distributed through legitimate apps, using counterfeit xcode. Apple removed 300+ apps, but it is thought that there may be as many as 4,000 compromised apps. Xcodeghost malware reports to a command/control centre-phises credentials, hijacks urls, steals icloud passwords. Keranger ransomware (a form of malware) was wrapped into transmission" a free. Bittorrent is a protocol (like http) used for peer to peer le sharing (unauthorized downloading). Bittorrent may also be used for legitimate purposes, like downloading online games, as it o ers faster downloading and uploading speeds. Keranger was designed to attack mac operating systems, and to encrypt all their.
