Weird Apple Podcasts behavior could enable hacking attempts

If you’ve had Apple Podcasts open randomly to a show you don’t subscribe to, you’re not alone. Here’s what’s going on.

A new report from 404 Media describes an odd situation in which the Apple Podcasts app appears to open unprompted, usually to a “religion, spirituality, and education” podcast.

Making things even weirder, at least one podcast has presented a potentially malicious link, which could enable an old attack method known as cross-site scripting, or…