Pradeo Security In-App Protection: Neutralizing clones and fake apps to prevent fraud - Help Net Security

Pradeo Security In-App Protection: Neutralizing clones and fake apps to prevent fraud - Help Net Security

Despite being built with various shielding techniques, mobile apps are easily cloned or mimicked. As a result, fraud figures have kept growing since the advent of mobile banking and payments, and counterfeit apps infiltrating stores generates serious reputation and trust issues.



On these statements, Pradeo R&D team focused on the issue and came up with a brand-new functionality to tackle it. The new anti-clone/fake app capability is part of Pradeo Security In-App Protection service and complements shielding capabilities.


A bit of background


As their names are often misused, here is some clarification. A clone is an application that has been duplicated through reverse-engineering, tampered and repackaged. A fake app, however, is built from scratch and simply includes some part of the code of the app it’s pretending to be or mi ..

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