[jonathanyc]

Weird, this whole time I had the impression that the Apple App Store was more strongly reviewed than the Google Play Store. I remember searching on the Play Store and getting e.g. lookalike/phishing apps pretending to be Firefox, but which I’m sure actually did cryptocurrency mining.

[talldayo]

Manual review is just fallible, period. The App Store has dealt with extremely high-profile phishing apps as well, even imitating Lastpass and the like: https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/02/a-password-manager-...