Federal law enforcement officers seized nearly $400,000 worth of counterfeit Apple products found in shipments from…
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seize counterfeit Apple AirPods
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized a shipment from China containing 25 counterfeit “Apple AirPods” on June 1st…
Apple, Gucci, Burberry, and Nike among counterfeit goods seized before Christmas
Thousands of imitation products originating from China were seized by Border Force officials in recent weeks from ports…
Fourteen indicted in $6 million counterfeit iPhone and iPad scheme
A federal grand jury indictment was unsealed today charging fourteen alleged members of an international criminal organization with dozens of fraud, conspiracy, identity theft and money laundering charges related to their multi-million-dollar counterfeit iPhone and iPad scheme…
Chinese national sentenced to U.S. federal prison for counterfeit iPhone trafficking scheme
A Chinese national was sentenced to 37 months in federal prison and three years’ supervised release on Tuesday for his part in a counterfeit iPhone trafficking scheme that defrauded Apple…
Motherboard reviews a counterfeit $100 iPhone X, finds a massively-reskinned Android security nightmare
I needed to know what a $100 iPhone would be like…
Chinese national living in the U.S. on a student visa pleads guilty to distributing counterfeit Apple iPhones and iPads
A Chinese national living in the United States on a student visa pleaded guilty…
Warning: Beware barrage of counterfeit branded shopping apps in Apple’s App Store
Hundreds of fake retail and product apps have popped up in Apple’s App Store in recent weeks…
Apple lawsuit: Nearly 90% of chargers and cables for Apple devices sold as ‘genuine’ on Amazon are counterfeit and potentially dangerous
Apple has filed a trademark infringement cases against Mobile Star LLC for selling counterfeit power products…
Beijing police shut down massive iPhone counterfeiting operation
Police in Beijing have busted a factory that produced more than 41,000 fake iPhones…
Beats sues Chinese counterfeiters for $135 billion
Beats wants to stop cheap, Chinese-made knockoffs…
Apple patent application reveals unique anti-counterfeit solution for hardware
Beyond having to deal with copycat manufacturers like Samsung…
Maryland State Police seize $89,000 worth of counterfeit Apple products
Maryland State Police said they’ve recovered hundreds of counterfeit Apple products…
Over $635,000 in counterfeit Apple Lightning adapters and cables seized in Anchorage
More than $635,000 in counterfeit Apple adapters and USB cables…
New York City Police seize counterfeit iPhones, iPods, iPads
A police officer stood on Ninth Avenue at 39th Street on a warm Monday…
Counterfeit iPads flood market as scammers emerge
The success of Apple Inc. (AAPL)’s iPad isn’t just drawing more competition to the tablet market…
WikiLeaks cables detail Apple’s battle with counterfeits in China
Apple was slow to act against the booming counterfeit industry in China…
Developer warns of counterfeit titles on Mac App Store
Counterfeit software is already becoming a problem on the Mac App Store…
Foxconn suicide over 4G iPhone prototype spotlights China counterfeiting
“One week after the apparent suicide of a Chinese factory worker accused of stealing…
How to tell if your Apple iPod nano, iPod shuffle is counterfeit
Apple’s iPod has become so popular that counterfeiters are making their own versions and passing them off as authentic…
Microsoft cracks down on counterfeit versions of Windows XP, offers to replace fakes for free
Software pirates’ increasing skill at creating counterfeit versions of Windows XP has prompted Microsoft to introduce a pilot program that offers to…
Spain’s high court suspends $209 million fines on Apple, Amazon amid appeal
Spain’s high court has suspended 194 million euros ($209 million) in fines imposed on Apple and Amazon by the local antitrust watchdog…
Apple cautions: Only use certified Apple Watch chargers
Apple recommends charging your Apple Watch only with chargers made by Apple or chargers that have completed Apple MFi certification and…
Brothers who scammed Apple for $6.1 million in iPhones and iPads sentenced to prison
A federal judge in California this week sentenced two brothers to 41 months in prison each after they admitted to an eight-year-old iPhone…
Spain antitrust watchdog fines Apple and Amazon $218 million
Spain’s antitrust watchdog, CNMC, fined Amazon and Apple a total of €194.1 million ($218.03 million) on Tuesday for colluding to limit the…
U.S. judge rules Apple, Amazon must face consumer lawsuit over iPhone, iPad prices
A U.S. federal judge in Seattle ruled on Thursday that Apple and Amazon must face a consumer antitrust lawsuit in U.S. court accusing them of…
China’s Baidu sues Apple over fake ‘Ernie’ bot apps
Chinese search engine Baidu has filed lawsuits against Apple and “relevant” app developers over fake copies of its “Ernie” bot app available…
Antitrust lawsuit claims Apple, Amazon colluded to raise iPhone, iPad prices
Apple and Amazon were accused in an antitrust lawsuit on Wednesday of colluding to drive up iPhone and iPad prices by removing most…
Apple senior manager in his 60s blames ageism for not receiving merit bonus
A senior manager at Apple this week sued the company claiming that he was denied a retention bonus of at least $800,000 because…
Apple likely used fake March 23rd event to root out leakers
Top leakers were wrong about Apple holding a special media event on March 23rd as the company likely put out false information to root out…
Munster: Apple fared well at U.S. House antitrust hearing
On Wednesday, CEOs from Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google spent five hours testifying (virtually) at a House Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee hearing …
Apple tells U.S. Congress they’ve lost money on repair services since 2009
Apple has told the U.S. House Judiciary Committee that the company loses more money than it makes when repairing devices…
Why Apple doesn’t want users to replace their own batteries
As lithium-ion batteries become more common, companies like Apple are using software to make sure the batteries in its devices are authentic. This is because all lithium-ion batteries…
Apple locks down iPhone batteries, warns users against unauthorized third-party battery repairs
Apple has activated a dormant software lock on the iPhone’s battery that affects how iOS software treats unauthorized third-party battery replacements….
U.S. FTC is looking into the Amazon and Apple deal over antitrust concerns
Last year, Amazon cut a deal with Apple to bring direct iPhone sales to its platform for the first time….
How a crew of fraudsters allegedly stole $19 million worth of iPhones
Over the past seven years, a New York City-based fraud ring allegedly stole more than $19 million worth of iPhones by posing as…
Chinese man pleads guilty of defrauding Apple out of 1,500 iPhones
Over the span of two years, a Chinese national in Oregon sent devices that looked like iPhones to Apple…
Feds bust $900,000 iPhone repair & return scam in Oregon
Two engineering students in Oregon are accused of bringing thousands of counterfeit iPhones…
The one serious MacBook Pro security flaw that nobody is talking about
I’ve got a bad feeling about this…
Apple comes under fire from state-run media in China
Apple Inc. has come under fire by Chinese state media, which claims the U.S. technology giant…
EU ratchets up pressure on tech companies to curb ‘illegal content’
The European Commission on Thursday published new guidelines for online platforms to step up…
iOS 11 will expand iPhone’s NFC capabilities beyond Apple Pay in several ways
Apple at WWDC 2017 last month introduced Core NFC, a new iOS 11 framework…