Pirated App Store Client For iOS Found On Apple's App Store (helpnetsecurity.com)

Posted by timothy on Monday February 22, 2016 @02:21AM from the infinite-recursion dept.

An anonymous reader writes: An app called "Happy Daily English", which has been offered for download via Apple's official App Store, has been revealed to be a fully functional third party App Store client for iOS, offering users in mainland China a way to install modified versions of iOS apps on non-jailbroken devices. Its discovery shows that there are new techniques that can be used to fool Apple reviewers into allowing potentially malicious apps into the App Store, that enterprise certificates can be easily abused, and that there are ways for bypassing Apple's prohibition of apps dynamically loading new code.

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Oh. by Anonymous Coward · 2016-02-22 02:28 · Score: 0, Insightful

Apple products aren't as secure as all the hipsters want us to believe? Say it aint so.
Easy removal? by mwvdlee · 2016-02-22 02:32 · Score: 3, Insightful

I'm assuming Apple's walled garden approach makes it so much easier to remove this app and any apps, virusses and trojans potentially installed by it.

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Times change by SmaryJerry · 2016-02-22 03:42 · Score: 2, Insightful

The biggest reason macs had "no viruses" were that they also had no users so it wasn't worth it for a hacker. Now that Apple products are mainstream, all that changed.