Apple's enterprise developer program is also used to distribute pirated apps

The misuse of Apple's Enterprise Developer Program certificates continues to be in the news. According to information published by Reuters, "software pirates" have been using the program to distribute pirated versions of such popular applications as Minecraft, Pokemon Go, Spotify, Angry Birds and more.

An official program used to distribute pirated applications

By using so-called enterprise developer certificates, these pirated operations provide modified versions of applications to consumers, allowing, for example, listening to music without ads and circumventing taxes and game rules, thus depriving Apple and application developers. of the corresponding income.

In turn, pirated applications earn money by charging users annual subscription fees for "VIP" versions of their pirated applications that are "more stable than free versions."

After being alerted by Reuters, Apple has removed some of these apps, but since then others have also appeared occupying this place.

Disclosures about abuse of the Apple Enterprise Developer Program emerged late last month, when it emerged that Facebook and Google were using the program to distribute market research applications to users who were able to track all of their activity online. in exchange for certain rewards.

Apple revoked the business certificates of both companies, temporarily disabling internal Facebook and Google applications, including custom trial versions of their own public applications, as well as private internal applications for corporate use.

The last episode came just a few hours ago. The improper use of this development program has allowed the appearance of applications with adult content and games of chance, explicitly prohibited by the rules of the Apple App Store.

Via MacRumors Source Reuters