• Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      To be fair, things like this are pretty rare.

      The more common experience is that those reviewers are anal as hell reject people for petty stuff. This malware guy lucked out and got the burned out app reviewer who didn’t look twice.

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          9 months ago

          Yeah, but as the poor sap who has been deemed “computer guy” for every elderly parent, aunt and uncle in the family, I think the Play and App Stores do a decent job of keeping malware in check.

          It’s not perfect, but about once every year or two I have to put out a malware fire with a Windows laptop in the family. Dealing with the phones is less of a headache. Especially the iOS devices.

          I wish iOS made it easier for people like me to remove those guardrails for my own needs, but for my 80 year old parents, I’m all for keeping them living in Apple and Google’s stores.

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      9 months ago

      I am surprised this happened, it’s the first case of anything like this that I have heard of. Do you know of any other cases?

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      9 months ago

      Pretty well, it was bound to happen sooner or later and thisnis the first time Inhave heard about it

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        9 months ago

        There’s been plenty of malicious apps found in the past. Though, I’m sure the play store isn’t much better. Disappointing that Apple will bend devs over a Barrel sometimes but they don’t find shit like this.

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          9 months ago

          I never said that there wasn’t any malicious apps on the App Store, just that this was the first one that I have heard about that actively tries to fake being the official one and managed to get vetted.

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          9 months ago

          I never said that this is the first dodgy app in the app store?

          I said that this is the first app I have heard about that pretends to be the official app that have gone through the vetting step on the App Store.