Researchers found that most of the apps available on Apple’s App Store leak at least one hard-coded secret.
The researchers looked at 156,000 iOS apps and discovered more than 815,000 hardcoded secrets, including very sensitive secrets like keys to cloud storage, various Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), and even payment processors. The researchers noted how: “The average app’s code exposes 5.2 secrets, and 71% of apps leak at least one secret.” Secrets hard-coded in the source code of the apps are considered exposed because they are relatively easy to find and abuse by cybercriminals.
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Source: Malwarebytes Labs
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