Most security experts consider the iPhone platform more secure from hacker misuse because Apple (News - Alert) inspects each app before allowing it into the App Store. But Apple let its guard down this weekend as a fake app made its way through security.

On Saturday, Jan. 21, a fake iPhone (News - Alert) app, Camera+ version 4.0, was released for the iOS App Store. The real Camera+ app is the No. 7 on Apple’s bestseller list of paid iPhone apps.

Apple was quick to pull it from the App Store, so security researchers weren’t able to tell if the fake app contained malware. The fake Camera+ was released by a company called Pursuit Special and used graphics identical to those of the real app.

The fake app was listed for the same price as the real Camera+ app, $0.99, but the real deal is created by Tap Tap Tap, an app developer that aims for users’ tasks to be completed with a few taps.

Tap Tap Tap provides other apps for the iPhone, including Serenity, the relaxation app, for $0.99; The Heist, a puzzle game, for $2.99; Faces, an app to have “fun with photos,” for $0.99; Voices 2, voice changer, for $0.99; Digg, an app for digg.com, for free; Convert, the unit converter and calculator, for $0.99; and Classics, an app to read some of the greatest stories ever written, for $0.99.

In 2010, Apple pulled Camera+ from the App Store over a dispute concerning a violation of Apple’s developer agreements, but later restored the app to its distribution channel.

For Google’s Android (News - Alert) Market, this news is routine. Last month, Google had to pull 22 malware-infected apps from its official e-store. Over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend in 2011, multiple fake apps, including a fake version of the popular game Angry Birds, appeared on the Android Market.

“Customers who have been taken in by these apps have reported that the apps do not work, and the developers have refused to give refunds,” The Gadgets noted. “These scammers are impersonating Rovio Mobile, the creators of the Angry Birds franchise, with a host of apps that are designed to steal your dollars.”

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