Posted by _-x-_ 20 hours ago
Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day
I googled around and found a couple reddit threads with people reporting the exact same thing starting 2 or 3 days ago. There were reports from people on iPhone 12 and iPhone 17 so it doesn't seem device-specific.
Anyone else seeing this? Does anyone understand how or why this is happening?
It's probably just some Apple bug.
Do you think they accidentally found this 5 seconds before their exploit was launched or do you think they might have actually put some effort into doing this since they are an organization of people.
I can see a fucked up ceo greenlighting a trick to get their app installed on your phone without asking. I can’t really see them having it repeatedly download.
I suspect it’s a bug, or worst case a backdoor that’s been triggered with a commercial app instead of spyware accidentally or “accidentally”.
That may not be the case here, and certainly isn't the assumption we can make more generally.
We regularly see regressions in platform security.
Currently we are inundated by accounts who don’t give a shit and make a new automatically 3 seconds after their flagging.
As long as those accounts are allowed I don’t really care for the stated rules that aren’t actually enforced.