Comment by JimDabell

Oh, thanks for pointing that out. I copied and pasted from my previous comment here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44194034

I didn’t notice that Hacker News had truncated the URLs for display. You can get to the articles by following the links in the original comment.

> You are aware that it's not the app store that protects you, but the sandboxing?

Both protect you.

> Are these impersonation vectors, ie phishing?

It’s a variety of things. Some use accessibility hooks to act as key loggers. Some seem to use exploits. Some are phishing by impersonating other apps.