One of Apple’s biggest justification for full control over the App Store is quality and security. Through strict policy and manual review process, it can ensure that only secure and legitimate applications are available to users to install with confidence and peace of mind. However, occasionally someone passed the supervision that seemed to throw Apple’s defense out the window. It seems to be the case with Zoshy +, a pirated video streaming application that lives in the App Store for almost a month by disguising it as a puzzle game.
To be fair, the potentially dangerous application ratio that goes into the App Store is significantly smaller when you compare it with the Google Play Store. Very few successful applications, and sometimes use sophisticated ways to cheat reviewers. Then again, Apple uses the process of manual why Google mostly automates its security, so the media focus is also greater when the application enters Apple’s supervision.
How to Zoshy + application avoid simple detection and, at the same time, almost a genius. This application installs what looks like a legitimate Sudoku interface for reviewers to be tested. Don’t have anything else that can be done with it, the reviewer might just let it go in
However, unknown to them, however, this application can actually change its interface and behavior through the server-side switch which is only activated after Zoshy + entered the App Store. After a few seconds showed Sudoku UI, he turned to the actual form: a surprisingly sophisticated interface to watch pirated videos and films.
9to5mac reports that the application has been on the App Store for three weeks and even has a clear review pointing to its unauthorized functions. Not until after the report that Zoshy + was removed from the App Store, but damage was carried out, at least for Apple’s credibility. This incident came when the company fought against epic games in court for alleged monopolistic practices during the App Store, and its arguments for quality and security can be challenged by anecdotes like this.
It is not known whether this application really has other evil actions that directly harm the user. This naturally presents advertisements with free access benefits but also instructed using a link to distribute applications to get rid of these ads. These actions do nothing, however, and are unknown if the application developer can do anything with any information provided by click.
