Apple Hadirkan Solusi buat Pengembang Atasi Malware XcodeGhost

Menyusul ramainya pemberitaan mengenai malware berbahaya bernama XcodeGhost yang menyusup ke dalam ratusan aplikasi iOS di App Store, Apple baru saja mengirimkan surel berisi solusi bagi para pengembang untuk mengatasi malware jahat ini.

Dalam surelnya sebagaimana dilansir 9to5Mac, Apple menghimbau kepada para pengembang untuk mengunduh Xcode paling baru bukan dari pihak ketiga melainkan dari Mac App Store atau dari portal Apple Developer. Hal ini supaya Xcode yang diunduh bisa divalidasi atau diverifikasi oleh Apple.

Berikut surel selengkapnya:

We recently removed apps from the App Store that were built with a counterfeit version of Xcode which had the potential to cause harm to customers. You should always download Xcode directly from the Mac App Store, or from the Apple Developer website, and leave Gatekeeper enabled on all your systems to protect against tampered software.

When you download Xcode from the Mac App Store, OS X automatically checks the code signature for Xcode and validates that it is code signed by Apple. When you download Xcode from the Apple Developer website, the code signature is also automatically checked and validated by default as long as you have not disabled Gatekeeper.

Whether you downloaded Xcode from Apple or received Xcode from another source, such as a USB or Thunderbolt disk, or over a local network, you can easily verify the integrity of your copy of Xcode.

Whether you downloaded Xcode from Apple or received Xcode from another source, such as a USB or Thunderbolt disk, or over a local network, you can easily verify the integrity of your copy of Xcode.

To verify the identity of your copy of Xcode run the following command in Terminal on a system with Gatekeeper enabled:spctl –assess –verbose /Applications/Xcode.app

where /Applications/ is the directory where Xcode is installed. This tool performs the same checks that Gatekeeper uses to validate the code signatures of applications. The tool can take up to several minutes to complete the assessment for Xcode.

The tool should return the following result for a version of Xcode downloaded from the Mac App Store:/Applications/Xcode.app: acceptedsource=Mac App Store

and for a version downloaded from the Apple Developer web site, the result should read either/Applications/Xcode.app: acceptedsource=Apple

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