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Your employees probably expect to work from anywhere, at any time they want, on any device. With the rise of remote work, users are accessing business apps and data from mobile devices more than ever before. Cortex XDR Mobile for iOS lets you protect your users from mobile threats, such as malicious URLs in text messages and malicious or unwanted spam calls.

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DualToy: New Windows Trojan Sideloads Risky Apps to Android and iOS Devices

Over the past two years, we’ve observed many cases of Microsoft Windows and Apple iOS malware designed to attack mobile devices. This attack vector is increasingly popular with mal...

Sep 13, 2016

By Claud Xiao

Cybersecurity, Mobility

Protecting Your Organization Against Mobile Threats

Mobile has been a disruptive force in information technology and it will only continue to grow. The challenge for businesses is that devices must be secured before they can be used within the enterprise setting...

May 05, 2016

By Palo Alto Networks

Threat Prevention, Unit 42

Pirated iOS App Store’s Client Successfully Evaded Apple iOS Code Review

Apple’s official iOS App Store is well known for its strict code review of any app submitted by a developer. This mandatory policy has become one of the most important mechanisms i...

Feb 21, 2016

By Claud Xiao

Malware, Threat Prevention, Unit 42

The Threat Intelligence Research That Mattered to You This Year

Unit 42 did some incredible work in 2015 discovering, analyzing and disclosing malware – some new and others making a reappearance. Take a look below...

Dec 30, 2015

By Anna Lough

Malware, Mobility, Threat Prevention, Unit 42

iOS Trojan “TinyV” Attacks Jailbroken Devices

In October 2015, we discovered a malicious payload file targeting Apple iOS devices. After investigating, we believe the payload belongs to a new iOS Trojan family that we’re calling “TinyV”. In December 2015,...

Dec 15, 2015

By Claud Xiao

Malware, Mobility, Reports, Threat Prevention, Unit 42

BackStab: Mobile Backup Data Under Attack from Malware

Today we are releasing a whitepaper describing how malicious actors are stealing private mobile device data by accessing local backup files stored on PC and Mac computers. We have identified 704 samples of six...

Dec 07, 2015

By Claud Xiao

Ignite, Mobility, Predictions

2016 Prediction #2: The “What” Matters More than the “Who” in Mobile Securi...

This is the second in our series of cybersecurity predictions for 2016. Stay tuned for more through the end of the year.

Nov 18, 2015

By Brian Tokuyoshi

Malware, Threat Prevention, Unit 42

YiSpecter: First iOS Malware That Attacks Non-jailbroken Apple iOS Devices ...

We recently identified a new Apple iOS malware and named it YiSpecter. YiSpecter is different from previously seen iOS malware in that it attacks both...

Oct 04, 2015

By Claud Xiao

Malware, Threat Prevention, Unit 42

More Details on the XcodeGhost Malware and Affected iOS Apps

A few days ago, we investigated a new malware called XcodeGhost that modifies Xcode, infects iOS apps and is seen in the App Store. We also found more...

Sep 21, 2015

By Claud Xiao

Malware, Threat Prevention, Unit 42

Update: XcodeGhost Attacker Can Phish Passwords and Open URLs through Infec...

On Thursday we posted the initial analysis report on XcodeGhost malware and then found it had infected 39 iOS apps, potentially impacting hundreds of...

Sep 18, 2015

By Claud Xiao

Malware, Threat Prevention, Unit 42

Malware XcodeGhost Infects 39 iOS Apps, Including WeChat, Affecting Hundred...

Yesterday we posted an analysis report on a novel malware XcodeGhost that modifies Xcode IDE to infect Apple iOS apps. In the report, we mentioned tha...

Sep 18, 2015

By Claud Xiao

Malware, Threat Prevention, Unit 42

Novel Malware XcodeGhost Modifies Xcode, Infects Apple iOS Apps and Hits Ap...

UPDATE: Since this report's original posting on September 17, three additional XCodeGhost updates have been published, available here, here and here.

Sep 17, 2015

By Claud Xiao

Cybersecurity, Malware, Mobility, Threat Prevention, Unit 42

KeyRaider iOS Malware: How to Keep Yourself Safe

Earlier this week we published an analysis of KeyRaider, which is an iOS malware family and a reminder of the risks users take when they choose to jailbreak their mobile devices.

Sep 01, 2015

By Ryan Olson

Cybersecurity, Malware, Mobility, Threat Prevention, Unit 42

KeyRaider: iOS Malware Steals Over 225,000 Apple Accounts to Create Free Ap...

Recently, WeipTech was analyzing suspicious Apple iOS tweaks reported by users and found over 225,000 valid Apple accounts with passwords stored on a...

Aug 30, 2015

By Claud Xiao

Malware, Mobility

Revealing the Secrets: Advances in Android and iOS Attacks

In recent months, Unit 42, the cyber threat intelligence team at Palo Alto Networks, has encountered several game-changing advances in mobile malware for both iOS and Android. For...

May 05, 2015

By Palo Alto Networks

Malware, Unit 42

Learn More About WireLurker and the Impact to OS X and iOS

Recently Palo Alto Networks researcher Claud Xiao discovered WireLurker, a new family of Apple OS X and iOS malware with characteristics unseen in any previously documented threats...

Dec 05, 2014

By Chad Berndtson

Mobility, Unit 42

Protecting Users from iOS App Provisioning Profile Abuse

Recently, we announced the discovery of WireLurker, a new family of malware that abuses app provisioning profiles to install potentially malicious apps on any iOS device, regardless of whether it is jailbroken....

Nov 24, 2014

By Zhi Xu, Andrey Tverdokhleb, Soundarya Sivaramakrishnan, Claud Xiao and Yongjie Yin

Malware, Threat Prevention, Unit 42

The Question of WireLurker Attribution: Who Is Responsible?

After news of WireLurker began circulating in handful Chinese-language tech forums over the summer, a Chinese-language technology blogger conducted on...

Nov 10, 2014

By Jen Miller-Osborn

Malware, Mobility, Reports, Threat Prevention, Unit 42

WireLurker: A New Era in OS X and iOS Malware

Today we published a new research paper on WireLurker, a family of malware targeting both Mac OS and iOS systems for the past six months. We believe that this malware family heralds a new era in malware attacki...

Nov 05, 2014

By Claud Xiao

Cybersecurity, Malware, Mobility, Unit 42

AppBuyer: New iOS Malware Steals Apple ID and Password to Buy Apps

Palo Alto Networks recently found and analyzed a new iOS malware affecting jailbroken iOS devices in the wild. The malware will connect to C&C ser...

Sep 12, 2014

By Claud Xiao

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