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

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Easy removal? by mwvdlee · · 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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    1. Re:Easy removal? by AmiMoJo · · Score: 4, Informative

      Not at all, Android can do the same and doesn't need the walled garden to do it. Play Services on Android will scan even sideloaded apps, and can remove apps that are found to be malicious no matter where they come from.

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  2. Law Enforcement Implications by dlleigh · · Score: 5, Funny

    So the FBI doesn't need Apple to help them get the information on the San Bernadino shooter's phone after all. They can just ask the Chinese.

    1. Re:Law Enforcement Implications by U2xhc2hkb3QgU3Vja3M · · Score: 3, Funny

      And what would be a good source of AMD?

  3. Re:I knew something was suspicious about that app by AmiMoJo · · Score: 3, Informative

    This is a really weird myth. The Chinese can say the L sound perfectly, it's actually the R sound that they have some slight issues with. Koreans too, which makes that puppet film all the more bizarre.

    The Japanese have some issues with the L sound, which I guess must be the origin of the myth. Japanese, Chinese, Korean, all the same, right?

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