Note too that the scam was detected, the loophole closed, and the affected software removed in a very few days.
What I note is that many of the websites and news agencies reporting this are omitting the part of the story that it is primarily only the Chinese Apple App Store that is at all affected. The US store has had one, count'em, one app involved. In two of the stories I had to read more than two-thirds of the way through them before before I learned the problem really only existed in China. The headlines strongly imply it is the Apple App Store in this country.