Apple’s App Store mistakenly approves app that streams pirated movies
Another illegal streaming app was approved by Apple’s App Store that surfaced pirated films for people in certain regions outside the U.S., including France, Canada, and the Netherlands. It has since been removed from the App Store.
Though Apple has since removed the app, the App Store listing for “Univer Note” presented the app as a productivity platform that can “easily help you record every day’s events and plan your time.” However, for users in certain countries, the app showed a collection of pirated movies, such as Venom: The Last Dance, Joker: Folie à Deux, and Terrifier 3. Options within the app were labeled in French, while films streamed in their original language with French subtitles or dubbing.
Anyone who downloaded the app in an unsupported region, such as the US, would only see a productivity app, a strategy we’ve seen used by other piracy apps to evade detection from reviewers. One recent example was Kimi earlier this year, which posed as a vision-testing tool and was quickly removed after news outlets began reporting about it.
MacDailyNews Note: As of November 4, the app is no longer available via Apple’s App Store.
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