{"id":23646,"date":"2022-06-06T10:31:50","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T14:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=23646"},"modified":"2022-06-07T11:38:19","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T15:38:19","slug":"apple-blocked-1-6-million-apps-in-2021-to-protect-against-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/apple-blocked-1-6-million-apps-in-2021-to-protect-against-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Blocked 1.6 Million Apps in 2021 To Protect Against Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-ar-index=\"0\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2021, Apple\u2019s App Review team blocked more than 1.6 million risky apps and updates from the App Store for potentially defrauding users.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the company&#8217;s first fraud prevention analysis report in 2021, the tech giant said that almost 1 million problematic new apps and close to 1 million app updates were rejected or taken down by the App Review team.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"4\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Apple has also blocked more than 343,000 iOS apps for privacy violations last year, and 157,000 more were rejected for attempting to mislead or spam users.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"6\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The tech giant also blocked over 34,500 applications from getting indexed on the App Store for using undocumented or hidden features.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"8\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Furthermore, an additional 155,000 more apps were removed for bait-and-switch tactics, like adding new features or capabilities once approved.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"9\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The company also said that it was able to shield its users from $1.5 billion of potentially fraudulent transactions in 2021. It likewise blocked more than 3.3 million stolen cards on Apple&#8217;s online store and banned almost 600,000 accounts from making transactions again on any of its platforms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"10\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The company says that its efforts to protect customers from fraud require the monitoring and vigilance of various teams from App Review to Discovery Fraud.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"12\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Apple is dedicated to keeping the App Store a safe and trusted place for people to discover and download apps,&#8221; the company said in this latest report.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"12\">\n<p data-ar-index=\"12\">For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/apple-blocked-16-millions-apps-from-defrauding-users-in-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in Bleepingcomputer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2021, Apple\u2019s App Review team blocked more than 1.6 million risky apps and updates from the App Store for potentially defrauding users. In the company&#8217;s first fraud prevention analysis report in 2021, the tech giant said that almost 1 million problematic new apps and close to 1 million app updates were rejected or taken [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,381,16,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-companies","category-operations","category-security","category-social-networks"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23672,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23646\/revisions\/23672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}