


It's unclear how many times pirated copies of games like "Minecraft: Pocket Edition" or "Geometry Dash" have been illegally downloaded. On vShare, the most frequently downloaded iOS apps are nearly all free, pirated versions of top paid apps on the real iTunes App Store. The vShare app is itself a portal to an app store of its own. But your iPhone is allowed to download them anyway, because Apple servers vouch for that certificate.Īccording to Proofpoint, vShare pirates managed to get their hands on several Apple enterprise certificates, using them to create a vShare app. Those apps don't make it to the official App Store, so they aren't reviewed by Apple itself. If a company pays $299 per year and joins the Apple Developer Enterprise program, its apps get a special, trusted certificate. Apple lets corporations create their own internal apps for employees.
