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Brand Abuse in App Stores: Why Fake Apps Keep Winning & What Security Teams Miss

Brand abuse in app stores is no longer opportunistic. It has become repeatable, scalable, and persistent. Attackers do not publish one fake app and disappear. They operate in cycles. A fake app is uploaded, value is extracted, a takedown occurs, and a near-identical version reappears under a new developer identity. This loop runs continuously across regions, marketplaces, and distribution channels. For security teams, this changes the mandate.

How modified APKs disguise themselves as your app across third-party stores

Attackers don’t need to breach your infrastructure to harm your users. They don’t need source code access, credentials, or backend vulnerabilities. They just need your public APK. Once your app is publicly available, attackers can download it, decompile it, inject malicious code, repackage it, and redistribute it through third-party app stores and unofficial marketplaces.

Your app store listings are changing without you noticing. Here's why it matters.

Most teams treat an app release as the finish line. The build clears CI/CD checks. Security scans pass. The app ships. Celebrations follow. But for mobile apps, the real exposure often begins after release, inside app stores, where metadata lives a completely different lifecycle from your code. App store listings are not static assets. They evolve constantly: What your team approved on day one may look very different to users on day ten.

Ignore false positives safely with ggshield secret ignore

In this section, we cover what to do when ggshield finds something you don’t actually need to remediate, like a false positive, an intentionally fake credential in a demo repo, or a known non-sensitive test value. ggshield secret ignore lets you mark specific findings as ignored by adding them to the secrets.ignored_matches section of your local configuration. If your repo doesn’t already have a local config file, ggshield will create a.gitguardian.yaml file for you.

Why Enterprise and Fortune 500 Companies are Leaving Snyk and Checkmarx for JFrog

Effectively protecting your software supply chain has reached a critical turning point where the traditional strategy of patching together “best of breed” or point AppSec solutions is no longer sustainable.

December Release Rollup: Model Selector, Splunk Integration, and More

We’re excited to share new updates and enhancements for December, including: For more info on these updates, see the list below and read the detailed articles. Please join the Egnyte Community to get the latest updates, chat with experts, share feedback, and learn from other users.

Our 2025 - Innovation, Intelligence, and Impact

Following Cyberint’s acquisition by Check Point at the end of 2024, we’ve only accelerated across our platform and services. This year-in-review highlights the biggest achievements of 2025, spanning AI innovation, huge advancements in threat intelligence, brand protection, and attack surface management, global coverage and most importantly customer impact.

2025 Year in Review: Building the Future of Security Operations

Arctic Wolf entered 2025 with momentum and a clear focus: advancing security operations in ways that deliver measurable outcomes for organizations facing an increasingly complex threat environment. As the year comes to a close, we’re building on that momentum — strengthening our platform, expanding globally, and laying the foundation for what comes next in 2026.