The Android mobile operating system tends to attract an outsized share of scrutiny when it comes to the prevalence of scammy, malicious apps that target users because of the open-source nature of the platform. Indeed, recent weeks have seen reports of everything from dangerous Android apps that mimic bank pages and steal login credentials, to an app that pretends to be an Android system update that in actuality is able to let a hacker take complete control over a victim’s phone.
Meanwhile, these same kinds of malicious apps are sometimes able to likewise sneak onto Apple’s iOS app platform, as well. These sketchy iOS apps include examples like a scam bitcoin app that recently cost one iPhone user his life saving's -- more than $600,000 in bitcoin at the time of the theft, per The Washington Post.
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Scammy iOS app tricked an iPhone user and stole his life’s savings originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 31 Mar 2021 at 16:55:11 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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