{"id":38483,"date":"2023-02-15T16:30:22","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T21:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=38483"},"modified":"2023-02-15T16:30:22","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T21:30:22","slug":"swapping-app-data-after-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/15\/swapping-app-data-after-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Swapping App Data After Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/23\/02\/01\/fraudsters-beat-app-store-vetting-by-swapping-out-app-data\">William Gallagher<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/23\/02\/01\/fraudsters-beat-app-store-vetting-by-swapping-out-app-data\"><p>Con artists involved in a so-called &ldquo;pig butchering&rdquo; scam sneaked apps into Apple&rsquo;s App Store and Google Play Store by temporarily presenting innocuous functionality.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>As the apps went through review, they each appeared to be doing exactly what they claimed to be.<\/p><p>Once the apps were approved and on the App Store, though, the destination websites were seemingly changed.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>In this case, the very presence of the apps on the App Store and Google Play Store helps make them seem legitimate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/22\/the-app-store-isnt-catching-the-most-egregious-scams\/\">The App Store Isn&rsquo;t Catching the Most Egregious Scams<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/22\/the-app-store-doesnt-make-apps-safe\/\">The App Store Doesn&rsquo;t Make Apps Safe<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/08\/post-approval-app-review\/\">Post-Approval App Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Gallagher: Con artists involved in a so-called &ldquo;pig butchering&rdquo; scam sneaked apps into Apple&rsquo;s App Store and Google Play Store by temporarily presenting innocuous functionality.[&#8230;]As the apps went through review, they each appeared to be doing exactly what they claimed to be.Once the apps were approved and on the App Store, though, the destination [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2023-02-15T21:30:25Z","apple_news_api_id":"53570276-9c65-4e03-a2da-71c4d2ad70f2","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-02-15T21:30:25Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AU1cCdpxlTgOi2nHE0q1w8g","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1846,91,2036,31,2185,26],"class_list":["post-38483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-app-review","tag-appstore","tag-app-store-scams","tag-ios","tag-ios-16","tag-iosapp"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38484,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38483\/revisions\/38484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}