Report claims a popular iOS SDK is stealing click revenue from other ad networks

The suspicious iOS SDK is used by more than 1,200 apps, with 300 million downloads/month.

In an explosive report published today, developer security firm Snyk claims it found malicious code inside a popular iOS SDK used by more than 1,200 iOS applications, all collectively downloaded more than 300 million times per month.

According to Snyk, this malicious code was hidden inside the iOS SDK of Mintegral, a Chinese-based advertising platform.

Mintegral provides this SDK to Android and iOS app developers for free. Developers use the SDK to embed ads inside their apps with just a few lines of code, in order to cut down development time and costs.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/report-claims-a-popular-ios-sdk-is-stealing-click-revenue-from-other-ad-networks/

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