permission.C2D_MESSAGE"Ĭom.RECEIVEĪ_BOOT_COMPLETED The app uses a lot of permissions, but these are mainly Badge permissions to display Badge Icons over the App Icon.Ī_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
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We are investigating the file on hand, but so far we can't really say what is going on behind the scenes. The biggest problem is that we found another app, which is using our name and app icon, under a different package name and is potentially a Malware or a Spyware. Today we found out that one of our paid apps was being distributed there and was downloaded at least 14,000 times which is a potential loss of roughly 40,000 USD for us.īut that is not the reason for this post. They can easily verify if an app is actually a paid app on the Play Store by running the package name against the uploaded package name and check if it is paid or not - there is no possible excuse for what they do! Their CEO is Paulo Trezentos, who does not seem very concerned that the main business operation of their store is to offer paid apps for free. They operate from Portugal and are fairly slow to respond to takedown requests. It is a pretty shady operation and their app has been banned from the Play Store.
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For anyone who doesn't know Aptoide is a 3rd party Appstore mainly used for distribution of paid apps for free (copyright infringement)