While I can think of a hundred other things to do with my phone, crypto mining has never been one of them. Which is why I was surprised to see in June of this year, Apple banned crypto mining apps from the App Store. Who knew crypto mining on iOS was even a thing?
There has been a lot said regarding the security of the iOS platform, especially when compared to Android. While iOS does an amazing job sandboxing applications and preventing your iPhone from becoming the next biggest botnet, I was surprised to see some crypto mining from inside my house…and not the cool kind of crypto mining that puts coin in my pocket. This was malware running on a system inside my house.
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