Masque Attack is the most dangerous malware for the iOS platform ever released, with Apple last week providing a press release announcing that there are currently no users infected by it. Despite this announcement, the Apple company published however on Friday a guide to help iDevice owners protect themselves from malware that can leave them without a wealth of data. In this guide, the American company presents the system implemented in iOS that notifies us when we receive an alert from an unknown source to install applications.
As you can see in the image above, the alert message is similar to the one displayed when we connect an iDevice to an unknown computer, asking for our consent to trust that source or not. Basically the moment we go to a link that tells us it can install an iOS app, we will have to accept or not that link allows us to install apps or not. Apple gives us the opportunity to avoid installing malware-infected apps and I recommend you to press the Don't trust button for any kind of unknown source.
In conclusion, iOS already contains protection systems against the installation of malware, but it is up to us to protect ourselves or not, especially since malware infects both jailbroken and non-jailbroken devices.
