{"id":643993,"date":"2026-08-16T12:52:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T12:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/16\/defillama-delayed-mobile-launch-over-phishing-apps-on-apple-store-founder-says\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T12:52:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T12:52:39","slug":"defillama-delayed-mobile-launch-over-phishing-apps-on-apple-store-founder-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/16\/defillama-delayed-mobile-launch-over-phishing-apps-on-apple-store-founder-says\/","title":{"rendered":"DefiLlama delayed mobile launch over phishing apps on Apple Store, founder says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-images.ctmedia.io\/media\/article-covers\/hi-hackers-fishing.jpg\" alt=\"DefiLlama delayed mobile launch over phishing apps on Apple Store, founder says\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>DefiLlama\u2019s founder said Apple removed one fake app within days after the company documented it draining funds from a small crypto wallet.<\/p>\n<p>DefiLlama delayed the launch of its mobile app while it spent months trying to get Apple to remove phishing apps from its App Store that impersonated the analytics provider, according to the company\u2019s pseudonymous founder, 0xngmi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe waited \u2018till all the fake apps were taken down before we launched ours to avoid any user getting scammed,\u201d 0xngmi said in a Saturday X <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/0xngmi\/status\/2088475485122462029\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>DefiLlama had tried for months to get one malicious app removed, but Apple took it down \u201cin days\u201d after the team downloaded the app and documented a small wallet being drained, 0xngmi <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/0xngmi\/status\/2088473910903800051\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">added<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/defillama-delayed-app-launch-fake-phishing-apps-apple\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DefiLlama\u2019s founder said Apple removed one fake app within days after the company documented it draining funds from a small crypto wallet. DefiLlama delayed the launch of its mobile app while it spent months trying to get Apple to remove phishing apps from its App Store that impersonated the analytics provider, according to the company\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":643994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-643993","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}