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Sour Mint - The case of malicious advertisement SDK affecting thousands of mobile apps

Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) Attack

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Danny Grander, CSO and Co-founder, Snyk

On August 24th, 2020, Snyk published its research into a malicious SDK distributed by Mintegral, a Chinese ad network span off from Mobvista. In this SnykCon talk we will share the details surrounding the SDK, how it went undetected for more than a year, and the impact of our publication on the mobile advertisement ecosystem.

For more on SourMint visit: https://snyk.io/blog/remote-code-execution-rce-sourmint/

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Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) Attack

Man in the middle attacks take place where the perpetrator intercepts communication between two parties, often even altering the exchange with their information.

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