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Lancope Commentary: Apple’s App Store Malware Infection In China
September 2015 by Lancope
"Before this unfortunate incident the Apple App Store had the industry-leading track record releasing more than a million apps with only 5 known bad. This is due to their strong application verification process - contrast that with open Android policy resulting in daily malware. In this case there is little the user can do to protect itself. The fix for this is better care from the application developers to security and better verification from Apple. Apps like WeChat are used all over the world and there are people running apps developed in China everywhere.”
Due to internet restrictions and longer download times - people in China are used to using local services. This should be a wakeup call for software developers to really pay attention to their source materials. Mostly US and European developers download Xcode directly from Apple making a repeat of the same problem unlikely.”
