DefiLlama postponed the release of its mobile app after spending months urging Apple to remove fraudulent apps on the App Store that impersonated the analytics provider, the platform’s pseudonymous founder 0xngmi said.
“We waited ’till all the fake apps were taken down before we launched ours to avoid any user getting scammed,” 0xngmi wrote in a post on X.
According to 0xngmi, the team had repeatedly pushed Apple to remove one particularly malicious app. Apple pulled that app within days after DefiLlama downloaded it and provided documentation showing a small wallet had been drained, the founder added.
Cointelegraph has reached out to Apple for comment.
This incident follows other instances of malicious apps impersonating major crypto services on official app stores. Past examples include fake apps posing as the Rabby wallet and Curve Finance. In a related case from November 2023, a counterfeit Ledger Live app on the Microsoft Store led to thefts totaling $588,000 across 38 transactions.
Cointelegraph also published a feature on social-engineering scams that resulted in a $3.4 million loss after a “wrong number” message triggered a larger crypto fraud.
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