Despite receiving confirmation that Apple received the report, the $5 app remained in the App Store - where it was ranked the number one paid app across all Mac utilities.
Three researchers, including former NSA staffer Patrick Wardle, Thomas Reed of Malwarebytes, and “privacy fighter” said in a blog post today that they reported Adware Doctor last month for sending a user’s Safari, Chrome, Firefox, and App Store browsing histories alongside lists of the Mac’s apps and running processes to a server in China.
When a group of security researchers reported a popular but allegedly dangerous Mac App Store utility to Apple, noting that it secretly sends “highly sensitive user information” to an “unscrupulous” developer, Apple’s response for a full month was surprising: “crickets.” But after a cluster of bad press today, Apple finally pulled Yongming Zhang’s app Adware Doctor: Anti Malware &Ad from the store. The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility.
