By Eduard Kovacs on August 24, 2020
Researchers at developer security company Snyk claim to have identified malicious behavior in an advertising SDK that is present in more than 1,200 iOS applications offered in the Apple App Store.
The SDK has been developed by Mintegral, a China-based mobile advertising platform provider that has offices in the United States, Europe and Asia. Snyk says it has only identified the malicious behavior in iOS versions of the Mintegral advertising SDK; the code does not appear to be present in Android versions. The company estimates that the 1,200 impacted iOS apps are downloaded roughly 300 million times every month.
