Apple says it had blocked more than $ 9 billion in fraudulent app store transactions in the last five years, with potentially prevented alone in 2024 with more than $ 2 billion in probably fraudulent sanctions.
The company’s annual app Store Fraud analysis also shows that Apple identified about 4.7 million stolen credit cards and blocked more than 1.6 million accounts from re -transactions.
The app store team also blocked hundreds of thousands of unsafe apps last year that could affect more than 813 million visitors of the App Store in a week, rejecting about 1.9 million apps that did not meet Apple’s privacy and security standards. Reviewed 7.7 million app store submissions.
Another 320,000 was rejected to mimic the already submitted apps and misleading users, while more than 43,000 were denied entry into the Apple App Store to use unvertedly or hidden features.
“These bad actors can try to cheat users by hiding a potentially risky software. Apple said,
“Apps that try to access users’ personal data without their permission or knowledge are also prohibited from the app store. In 2024, the app review rejected the 400,000 app submission for privacy violations.”
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As a result of the Discovery Fraud Investigation, the company alone removed another 143 million fraud rating and review from the App Store in 2024, as well as 7,400 apps from about 9,500 misleading apps and app store charts.
Apple said that the app store app review teams weekly conducts an average check -up of more than 150,000 app submissions, helping more than 220,000 developers help publish their apps on the app store every year.
As part of its ongoing efforts to close the account fraud, the company also abolished 146,000 developer accounts for potentially fraud activity and rejected 139,000 developer enrollment, which tried to present malicious apps in the App Store.
It also blocked 711 million user account works on fraud concerns and neutralized another 146 million associated with malicious activity.
According to last year’s fraud analysis report, Apple stopped $ 1.8 billion in suspected transactions in 2023, slightly less than $ 2 billion blocked in 2022.
Apple advises customers who doubt suspicious activity in the app downloaded from the app store Reportaproblem.apple.com Immediately.
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