An examination of a scam app for macOS made by a bogus developer impersonating legitimate accounts reveals how the Mac App Store review system can be manipulated.
Spyware and malware is a continuing problem in computing, and Apple tries to keep things safe by maintaining security of the App Store and the Mac App Store. Naturally, bad actors then try to abuse those systems and to get around Apple’s security features.In a breakdown of techniques used by scammers, a post by Privacy1St on Medium explains what happened for one application that exploited a number of areas of the Apple ecosystem to progress.
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Apple is still slow to purge scam apps in the Mac App Store