When discussing mobile malware, whi

When discussing mobile malware, which keeps getting more attention as time goes, we usually think about Android. While the iOS app-store has been hit by viruses in the past, this phenomena is certainly negligible nowadays (though we believe this can change as well, more on that in future blog posts).
Thanks to Apple’s application review process and app sandboxing, iOS users are in a pretty good condition when it comes to security. The application review process makes it harder for attackers to insert malicious apps to Apple’s App Store. Moreover, app sandboxing makes sure that malicious applications have limited permissions and capabilities if and when they reach to an iOS device. As demonstrated in the diagram below, a sandboxed application has access to restricted resources and cannot change system-level settings.