Chinese ad platform using iOS SDK to steal ad revenue and exfiltrate data

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More than 1,200 iOS apps use Mintegral's malicious SDK

A software development kit (SDK) created by China's Mintegral is exhibiting malicious behaviour, stealing revenue from rival ad platforms and exfiltrating user data to servers controlled by its dev...

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