Pangu is one of the most well-known tools for those people who like to jailbreak their Apple devices. Recently a lot of news surrounded around the jailbreak for iOS 9.3.3. The security researchers behind the jailbreak tool have answered the call. It appears that most of the people who have used the tool for jailbreaking their devices have got their ids compromised.
It could be a mere possibility that the security breach of the device was a mere coincidence or may be the tool was left for use for various parties. A potential threat of account compromise has been detected now with jail breaking of the devices. People seem to be worried now. The tool was initial launched by the company from China 25PP. The rights for the tool for jailbreaking the device were being distributed by “PPHelper” from 25PP. There was some smart user’s tool who could directly install the Jailbreak tool without using the helper tool.
A common thread was found between all the users who have recently jailbroken their devices and got their accounts compromised. All of them used the PPHelper tool for installation guidelines. It is pretty much possible that the tool contained some malicious code which was sent to the device from the windows machine. The dirty malicious code is responsible for the unauthorized access of the device. A lot of users have complained that multiple unauthorized accesses have been done on their:
· PayPal
· Debit, Credit and Bank accounts
A lot of tweets have been done by the users on the social media too. Most of the fraudulent transactions done were from various places like Vietnam, Beijing, Taiwan or some of the other places in China. The company has formally addressed the issue and is trying to work between the codes to find the leak and rectify the errors.
