iPhone apps found on App Store with malware that reads your screenshots for key data

One of the promises of the App Store is that anything you download has gone through a vetting process by Apple. Occasionally though, iPhone apps with malicious code slip through the cracks, and today, researchers at Kaspersky have reported on new malware they discovered in App Store apps—which they say is ‘the first known case.’

Malware found in both iOS and Android apps with similar tactics

Dmitry Kalinin and Sergey Puzan today published their work for Kaspersky about screenshot-reading OCR malware discovered in both…