Scylla Ad Fraud on Apple Store
Security researchers have discovered 75 applications on Google Play and another ten on Apple’s App Store engaged in ad fraud. Collectively, they add to 13 million installations.
Apart from flooding mobile users with advertisements, both visible and hidden, the fraudulent apps also generated revenue by impersonating legitimate apps and impressions.
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The Scylla apps typically used a bundle ID that doesn’t match their publication name, to make it appear to the advertisers as if the ad clicks/impressions come from a more profitable software category.
Previously:
- The Top PDF Reader in the Mac App Store
- Most Fraudulent Apps Still on the App Store
- Notarized Mac Malware
- A Deceitful “Doctor” in the Mac App Store
Update (2022-10-07): See also: MacRumors.
Good thing we have Apple's very splendid and worthwhile review process to keep scam apps like this out
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