New information shows that some hackers have used the business program of Apple Inc. to distribute pirated versions of applications through the App Store, such as: Spotify, Angry Birds, Pokemon Go, Minecraft and other popular applications.
Hackers take advantage of digital certifications
Apple's business program states that through a digital certification developers can distribute applications in the store, a situation that has been exploited by illicit software distributors, such as: TutuApp, Panda Helper, AppValley and TweakBox to create modified versions of the most used applications on iPhones.
Violation of developer program rules
In the case of Spotify, hackers had blocked the ads that play when you are listening to music through a free subscription, while in Minecraft, hackers not only placed a free version within the App Store when inside the store has a cost of USD $ 6.99, but also allow you to circumvent the rules of the games.
Measures that allow the hackers to obtain the income of these applications in violation of the rules of the program for Apple developers where it is mentioned that this income belongs to the company of the Cupertino and the manufacturers of these applications.
Two-factor authentication
Apple has mentioned that it is working on a new implementation at the security level, to prevent its store from being a source of fraudulent applications through two-factor authentication (2AF), since through this system it will send a code and a password to log in to all developer accounts in order to avoid misuse of the certificate.
New protection measures
In this sense, it was known that both Apple and the rest of the companies involved will establish preventive measures on their products.
As the case of Rovio, the Angry Birds mobile game maker who mentioned that they would be working on a way to address this infringement, while Niantic manufacturer of Pokemon Go, said that players who cheat through pirated applications are prohibited for violating the terms of service.
Date update on 2019-02-15. Date published on 2019-02-15. Category: hackers Author: Oscar olg Fuente: iosmacNot everything in life is technology
