How a mobile app company found Apple's XcodeGhost in the machine<article>
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<p>Nick Arnott couldn’t figure out recently why Apple kept rejecting an update to a mobile app his company developed.</p><p>It turned out the problem was a ghost in the machine.</p><p>His company,
Possible Mobile, is well versed in the App Store submission rules and has built apps for JetBlue, Better Homes & Gardens and the Major League Soccer.</p><p>The rejection came after it was discovered in mid-September that thousands of apps in the App Store had been built with a counterfeit version of an Apple development tool,
Xcode.</p><p>The fake version, dubbed
XcodeGhost and probably developed in China, had been downloaded by many developers from third-party sources, apparently because getting the 4GB code from Apple took too long.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3002337/business-security/how-a-mobile-app-company-found-the-xcodeghost-in-the-machine.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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How a mobile app company found Apple's XcodeGhost in the machine
