Apple has kept the promise made on September 22 to release a list of some of the XcodeGhost-affected iOS apps

Sep 24, 2015 19:54 GMT  ·  By

Apple has published today a list of the top most popular 25 applications affected by the Xcodeghost malware on its XcodeGhost Q&A page.

Two days ago, Apple released a statement regarding the XcodeGhost saga we had been experiencing during the past week, detailing what the malware does to infected apps and what they're doing to prevent it from spreading to further.

Moreover, they also stated that all iOS users who downloaded one of the XcodeGhost-infected apps would be notified, and that they were also working around the clock to provide Chinese developers with a faster way to download Xcode on their Macs to prevent a comparable problem in the future.

Today, Apple has also added a list of the top 25 most popular iOS applications affected by XcodeGhost.

The entire list of apps is as follows: WeChat, DiDi Taxi, 58 Classified - Job, Used Cars, Rent, Gaode Map - Driving and Public Transportation, Railroad 12306, Flush, China Unicom Customer Service (Official Version)*, CarrotFantasy 2: Daily Battle*, Miraculous Warmth, Call Me MT 2 - Multi-server version, Angry Bird 2 - Yifeng Li’s Favorite*, Baidu Music - A Music Player that has Downloads, Ringtones, Music Videos, Radio, and Karaoke, DuoDuo Ringtone, NetEase Music - An Essential for Radio and Song Download, Foreign Harbor - The Hottest Platform for Oversea Shopping*, Battle of Freedom (The MOBA mobile game), One Piece - Embark (Officially Authorized)*, Let’s Cook - Receipes, Heroes of Order & Chaos - Multiplayer Online Game*, Dark Dawn - Under the Icing City (the first mobile game sponsored by Fan BingBing)*, I Like Being With You*, Himalaya FM (Audio Book Community), CarrotFantasy*, Flush HD, Encounter - Local Chatting Tool.

Apple says that users who installed one of the affected apps should just update them to remove the malware

The apps that have a star next to their names are currently unavailable in the iOS App Store most probably because their developers haven't been able to provide Apple with a new and clean build of their app to replace the previous version built using the counterfeit Xcode copy.

According to Apple, "If users have one of these apps, they should update the affected app which will fix the issue on the user’s device. If the app is available on App Store, it has been updated, if it isn’t available it should be updated very soon."

Although Apple suggests that, if you installed any of the affected apps, all you need to do is update them once a new clean build is published, we have a tutorial describing a few steps that you should take to prevent unauthorized access to any of your data just in case some of your accounts and passwords were compromised while you were using an XcodeGhost-infected app.