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这家位于加利福尼亚州圣克拉拉的安全公司表示，WireLurker已经通过麦芽地应用商店——中国的第三方Mac应用商店——感染了400多个适用于苹果Mac OS X操作系统的应用。该公司称，在过去六个月中，467个被感染的应用已被下载了356104次，“可能已经影响了数十万用户。”

The company said users’ iOS devices could also become infected if they connected their mobile device to their Macs through a USB wire. “WireLurker monitors any iOS device connected via USB with an infected OS X computer and installs downloaded third-party applications or automatically generated malicious applications onto the device, regardless of whether it is jailbroken,” Palo Alto Networks security researchers said. “This is the reason we call it ‘wire lurker.’”

该公司称，用户如果通过USB连接线将移动设备与Mac电脑连接，用户的iOS设备也会受到感染。“任何iOS设备只要通过USB连接到受感染的OS X电脑，并安装下载的第三方应用程序，或自动在设备上产生恶意应用程序，都会被WireLurker监控，不管设备是否已经越狱，”该公司安全研究人员说。“因此我们称之为‘wire lurker’（连接线中的潜藏者）。”

Typically, iOS users can download applications from third parties only if they have “jailbroken” their phones, or altered them to run software Apple has not authorized. With WireLurker, an infected application can reach a non-jailbroken phone from an infected Mac OS X system, which is why Palo Alto Network researchers say WireLurker represents a “new brand of threat to all iOS devices.”