PSA: Apple’s Podcasts App May Be Enabling Malicious Content Delivery

Security researchers have identified suspicious activity in Apple’s Podcasts app that could be used to deliver malicious content to users, based on a report by 404Media‘s Joseph Cox.

Cox’s report describes some odd experiences with the Podcasts app that certainly suggest something untoward is going on across both iOS and macOS versions. He says that over recent months, the app has automatically launched and displayed unusual podcasts without his input. On Mac and iPhone, the app has opened religion,…