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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Law Enforcement Implications by dlleigh · 2016-02-22 02:34 · 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.
Re:Easy removal? by AmiMoJo · 2016-02-22 02:52 · 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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