Rovio has finally released the long-awaited sequel to the original Angry Birds hit mobile game. It’s been suggested that over 300 apps are infected, with 31 of them so far identified (list below) … Expand It’s not yet known why Apple’s own checks did not detect the malware when apps were submitted to the App Store.

It’s believed they downloaded the fake from local servers because it took too long to download the original from Apple’s own servers. The apps were infected by a fake copy of Xcode dubbed XcodeGhost, unwittingly downloaded by Chinese developers in place of the real thing. All other builds of Angry Birds 2 available in other countries are completely safe and secure. An update of Angry Birds 2 for customers in Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau that fixes the issue is coming very shortly.Īfter yesterday’s revelation that hundreds of iOS apps on the App Store had been infected by malware, security company Palo Alto Networks has posted a list of some of the affected apps – which include Angry Birds 2.

I wish to clarify that Rovio can confirm that only the Chinese build of Angry Birds 2 - available only on the App Store in Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau - is vulnerable to the security issue.

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