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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I knew something was suspicious about that app by NotDrWho · 2016-02-22 02:44 · Score: 1, Troll

The first clue was that is was called "Happy Daily English" instead of the proper "Happy Daily Engrish"

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SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
Apps apping other apps! by Anonymous Coward · 2016-02-22 03:51 · Score: 0, Troll

Modern app appers know ONLY apps can app apps, so this app is super appy because it apped an app to let it app other apps!
Apps!