Con artists involved in a so-called “pig butchering” scam sneaked apps into Apple’s App Store and Google Play Store by temporarily presenting innocuous functionality.The App Store includes an option for users to report fraud with apps, and in 2022, Apple said it had blocked 1.6 million “problematic apps” away from users. But a new report from security firm Sophos says that at least two apps involved in fraud got by the App Store’s review team.One was called Ace Pro, and was purportedly for scanning QR codes, while the other was presented as a real-time data tracker for cryptocurrencies, called MBM_BitScan. “One victim lost around $4000 to this fake application,” says Sophos. Read more…
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