Apparently, yesterday, Apple registered a problem in its App Storesince there was a piracy app that was hosted without problems on the platform, and could be downloaded by anyone as if it were another normal application.
This would have been reported and corrected by the company itself, however, it creates a precedent for other people to use the same trick and can hide their apps in the store, and not only at the level of piracy, but also with malware which could be dangerous for users.
Pirated apps in the App Store
The application we will talk about now allowed you to watch movies and television shows illegally, however, everything was fine for Apple, due to the way in which they had published it.
And the name of it was Universal Noteand it was supposedly about an app that “can help you easily record each day’s events and plan your time”, something that was totally false, and just a cover to be able to list it in the App Store without problems.
Once you downloaded it, legally, like any other in the store, you found that it was not what it said it was, however, as it was so hidden both in name and among the similar ones that competed with it, no one noticed. account, and the developer used it as a tactic so that friends, family, or even clients to whom he was selling it could have it easily and without strange tricks to install it.
At this time the app has been removedHowever, we are left wondering if they will be able to replicate it again, since it is very difficult for Apple to review the apps one by one, although it does so when published, it could not do so for all the updates that are uploaded daily to the apps. already published, so such a change would take time to be reported and corrected, and it may be the way that other cybercriminals take advantage of to incorporate malware into them or do something similar.
This leads us to think that it is likely that any application or game, no matter how much it is in the official store, could be a risk, so we should only trust those with time, ratings and reputation, since otherwise we could risk it. to find one that infected our phone, for example, and not only would we find some like the ones we have seen today, of piracywhich, despite not affecting us in any way, are illegal.
It appears that pirated movies and TV shows are only visible on the app in certain countries, such as Canada and France. In the US, the app appears to actually be a basic calendar app, which may have helped it fly under the radar until now.
As we can see, they have used an update only in certain countries to make it even easier to deceive the company, so the pirated version was not being provided everywhere in the world.
