Dexguard, a tool used to protect Android software from piracy, tampering and cloning attacks, has been removed after being illegally posted on Github. A version of the tool exposed on the code repository was stolen from a customer of Guardsquare, the software’s creator. TorrentFreak reports: “We develop premium software for the protection of mobile applications against reverse engineering and hacking,” the [security company Guardsquare’s] website reads. “Our products are used across the world in a broad range of industries, from financial services, e-commerce and the public sector to telecommunication, gaming and media.” One of Guardsquare’s products is Dexguard, a tool to protect Android applications from being decompiled, something that can lead to piracy, credential harvesting, tampering and cloning. Unfortunately, a version of Dexguard itself ended up on Github. In a takedown notice filed with the Microsoft-owned code platform, Guardsquare explains that the code is unauthorized and was obtained illegally. “The listed folders… contain an older version of our commercial obfuscation software (DexGuard) for Android applications. The folder is part of a larger code base that was stolen from one of our former customers,” Guardsquare writes. Guardsquare found almost 300 “forks” of the stolen software on Github and filed a request to have them all taken down.
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