Apple has shown on Tuesday that over the past five years, this has prevented more than $ 9 billion over the past five years, including more than $ 2 billion in 2024 only.
Campaign – Note The app store faces a wide range of threats seeking to deceive users in different ways, ranging from “deceptive applications designed to steal personal information, to falsificent payment schemes trying to use users.”
The technical giant said he had stopped more than 46,000 accounts for developers from the fraud problems and dismissed an additional 139,000 enrollment of developers as part of the effort to prevent bad actors from presenting his applications to the application store.
In addition, the company stated that last year it rejected more than 711 million accounts and deactivated nearly 129 million customer accounts to block these accounts, such as spam or manipulation of ratings and reviews, schedules and search results.
Some of the other statistics that are shared by Apple for 2024 g.
- Revealed and blocked over 10,000 illegitimate applications on pirate windows that include malware
- Stopped nearly 4.6 million attempts to install or launch applications that are distributed illegally outside the app store or approved other markets
- Discarded more than 1.9 million applications stores for non -compliance with security standards, reliability, privacy violations or fraud problems
- Removed over 37,000 applications for falsification of activity and rejected more than 43,000 applications for holding hidden or unregistered features
- More than 320,000 materials that copied other applications were recognized, spam, or otherwise misleading, and 400,000 more privacy applications.
- Removed more than 7 400 potentially false apps with App Store charts and almost 9,500 deceptive applications that appeared in the Search App Store
- Removed over 143 million frauds and reviews from the app store
- Identified nearly 4.7 million stolen credit cards and banned over 1.6 million transactions again
For comparison, Apple said it prevented More than 1.8 billion dollars In potentially false operations in 2023 and More than 2 billion dollars In potentially fraudulent operations in 2022. In 2023, Apple stopped about 118,000 developers accounts.
Disclosure follows from a similar Google report earlier this year that is clogs More than 2.36 million Android policy applications from the MarketPlace App Google Play in 2024 and banned more than 158,000 bad developers who tried to publish such harmful applications.
Annual Apple App Store fraud also takes place at a time when the company faces an increase in control over its application store policy. A recent US ruling ordered the iPhone manufacturer to allow iOS applications to show links or buttons that send customers to make purchases on the App store.
