Security News > 2023 > May > Apple Thwarts $2 Billion in App Store Fraud, Rejects 1.7 Million App Submissions

Apple has announced that it prevented over $2 billion in potentially fraudulent transactions and rejected roughly 1.7 million app submissions for privacy and security violations in 2022.

A total of 6.1 million app submissions were reviewed.

"Over 153,000 app submissions rejected from the App Store last year were found to be spam, copycats, or misleading, and nearly 29,000 submissions were rejected for containing hidden or undocumented features," Apple said.

On a related note, more than 147 million fraudulent ratings and reviews in the App Store were detected and blocked in 2022, with Apple intercepting close to 3.9 million attempts to install or launch apps distributed illicitly through its Developer Enterprise Program over the past 30 days alone.

In all, $2.09 billion in fraudulent transactions on the App Store were blocked in 2022.

"As bad actors evolve their dishonest tactics and methods of deception, Apple supplements its anti-fraud initiatives with feedback gleaned from a myriad of channels - from news stories to social media to AppleCare calls - and will continue to develop new approaches and tools designed to prevent fraud from harming App Store users and developers," the company said.

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