This app came onto our radar late last year. We’ve continued to fight against this app, as well as others made by the same developer, and it has been taken down several times now, but in a continued failure of Apple’s review process, is always replaced by a new version before long. It was eventually removed, but was replaced soon after by an identical app named Adware Doctor. We immediately began detecting this, and contacted Apple about removing the app. At that time, we discovered an app on the App Store named Adware Medic-a direct rip-off of my own highly-successful app of the same name, which became Malwarebytes for Mac. The developer of this app is one that we at Malwarebytes have had our eye on since 2015. The developers found a loophole that allowed them to access that data despite Apple’s restrictions. In the case of the list of running processes, the app had to work around blockages that Apple has in place to prevent such apps from accessing that data.
Most of this is data that App Store apps should not be accessing, much less exfiltrating.
DR.CLEANER MAC REVIEW SOFTWARE
Several security researchers have independently found different apps that are collecting sensitive user data and uploading it to servers controlled by the developer. There is a concerning trend lately in the Mac App Store.
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