As a result, the security vendor saw an opportunity to create an app that allows users to check the apps that they have on their iOS device and see what goes on in the background.

"Clueful can manually analyse app after app so that the user can see what exactly is going on being the user interface," Taflan said.

Despite the introduction of Clueful, Taflan will not go as far as saying that Bitdefender has identified malicious apps on the Apple iTunes App Store, as he feels that the closed nature of the online store makes it "difficult" to upload theses types of apps.

Instead, he will admit that there can be apps that require "much more than is necessary" from a user to do what the app promises to do.

"For example, a weather app that is geo-locating you is fine, as your weather report is dependant on where you are," he said.