Apple seems to have fixed this issue in the iOS 8.1.3.

Now, FireEye researchers have discovered a new but which can be doubly dangerous than Masque.

We will give a shot to understand this in simple terms.

Hackers can steal data with Masque Attack II hack of Apple’s iPhone and iPad

Fire Eye has brought this issue to the notice of Apple.

According to FireEyes article: An attacker can leverage this issue to launch an app containing a Masque Attack.

stealing the get in credentials.

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Apple iOS cannot protect its users against this because the attack would be at the prompt level.

2)URL Scheme Hijacking:This is more of a feature issue than the malware attack.

It was seen that Apple iOS allows apps from different developers to share the same URL schemes.

you’re able to see the Proof-of-Concept video below :

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source: www.techworm.net