"The infamous FinFisher cyber espionage tool has gone mobile
Yes, I'm familiar with FinFisher. Very little has been made publicly available about how it works, but one thing certainly seems clear: it is not something that can infect a non-jailbroken iOS device, unless perhaps it is manually installed by someone with physical access to the device on which it is to be installed. If there were any evidence at all that FinFisher could infect a non-jailbroken iOS device, that would be HUGE news, and that would not be something that any security company would keep quiet.
"Even though malware is increasing in iOS, it still remains relatively low compared with other operating systems"
This statement, by a C|Net "journalist" I've never heard of before, comes as the last sentence in a paragraph discussing the Flashback malware. Flashback only affected Mac OS X, not iOS. Clearly, the writer did not understand some aspect of what she was saying, as any mention of iOS does not make sense in the context she used it. If she had substituted "Mac OS X" where she said "iOS," the statement and the context would have made perfect sense.
"All platforms have some malware but it is less common on Blackberrys, Apple iOS devices like the iPhone and Windows Phone handsets"
Odd choice of quote... why pick the more generic statement, rather than the far more specific:
Apps that appear in the Apple iPhone and iPad’s iOS App Store are vetted and approved. The system keeps the store pretty much malware free but it has been compromised in the past. A security researcher demonstrated a - now patched - vulnerability that allowed apps to download unsigned code not vetted by the App Store’s review process and there has been an instance of a Trojan making it onto the app store.
To provide additional information, the vulnerability that Charlie Miller found was patched some time ago and was never exploited in the wild. The "trojan" that made it into the App Store as a proof-of-concept, not an actual piece of malware. As such, it did nothing at all malicious, yet even so it was big news at the time. That was, at this point, the only time anything like that happened. There is obviously no guarantee that real malware couldn't be smuggled past Apple at some point, but it hasn't happened yet.
Let's stick to facts here, please.
Edit: By the way, I notice you've completely dropped the whole issue of this paper by Felt since I asked for a link to it. Are you unable to provide that link?
