How to Prevent SSL Cookie Hijacking in Android & iOS Apps

Last updated June 2, 2024 by Appdome

Learn to Prevent Cookie Hijacking in Mobile apps, in mobile CI/CD with a Data-Driven DevSecOps™ build system.

What is Cookie Hijacking?

SSL or HTTP cookies are small packets of data stored in your app or browser that are used to facilitate accessing websites or logging into remote services (such as a mobile bank account). Cookies usually contain sensitive data like passwords or user information and is therefore vulnerable to attacks. Cookie hijacking is an attack method used by hackers to access cookies that belong to legitimate mobile users, usually for purposes of impersonating the user, accessing their account, conducting account takeovers (ATO), intercepting communications sessions, or other malicious reasons.

When cookies are generated, they can only be viewed by you – the site owner. No other website can view your cookies. But these cookies travel across the internet. They are used by ad services and analytics services, so they bounce around from server to server all across the globe. If the connection is not secure, a hacker can easily intercept or access the cookies as part of a mobile man-in-the-middle (MITM attack).

One of the most common ways hackers steal cookies is if they are using the same wifi as you. This kind of wifi hacking is called man-in-the-middle attack and can take place only if both are connected to the same wireless network. This can also happen to users within the same computer networks.

Why Prevent Cookie Hijacking in Mobile Apps?

Hijacking cookies is just as powerful (sometimes more so) than stealing a user’s password. It’s possible that with cookie hijacking, hackers can gain unlimited access to all of your resources. For example, an attacker may steal your identity or confidential company data; purchase items; or steal from your bank account.

A cookie attack is often initiated when an attacker sends a user a fake login. The victim clicks the fake link, which lets the attacker steal the cookie – actually, anything the user types in can be captured by the attacker. The attacker then puts that cookie in their browser and is able to impersonate the legitimate user.

Sometimes, a fake link isn’t even needed. If a user is in a session on an unsecured, public Wi-Fi connection, hackers can easily steal the data traveling through the connection. This can happen even if the site is secure and your username and password are encrypted.

Appdome detects, prohibits, and protects app connections against cookie hijacking by validating the server SSL certificate chain’s authenticity and providing authenticity proof to the server on behalf of the client.

Prerequisites for Using Prevent Cookie Hijacking:

To use Appdome’s mobile app security build system to Prevent Cookie Hijacking , you’ll need:

Appdome account (create a free Appdome account here)
A license for Pin to Host/MiTM Prevention
Mobile App (.ipa for iOS, or .apk or .aab for Android)
Signing Credentials (see Signing Secure Android apps and Signing Secure iOS apps)

Prevent Cookie Hijacking on Mobile apps using Appdome

On Appdome, follow these simple steps to create self-defending Mobile Apps that Prevent Cookie Hijacking without an SDK or gateway:

Upload the Mobile App to Appdome.
1. Upload an app to Appdome’s Mobile App Security Build System
2. Upload Method: Appdome Console or DEV-API
3. Mobile App Formats: .ipa for iOS, or .apk or .aab for Android
4. Prevent Cookie Hijacking Compatible With: Obj-C, Java, JS, C#, C++, Swift, Kotlin, Flutter, React Native, Unity, Xamarin, and more
Build the feature: Prevent Cookie Hijacking.
1. Building Prevent Cookie Hijacking by using Appdome’s DEV-API:
  1. Create and name the Fusion Set (security template) that will contain the Prevent Cookie Hijacking feature as shown below:
  2. Follow the steps in Sections 2.2.1-2.2.2 of this article, Building the Prevent Cookie Hijacking feature via Appdome Console, to add the Prevent Cookie Hijacking feature to this Fusion Set.
  3. Open the Fusion Set Detail Summary by clicking the “...” symbol on the far-right corner of the Fusion Set. Copy the Fusion Set ID from the Fusion Set Detail Summary (as shown below):”
    
    Figure 2: Fusion Set Detail Summary
    Note: Annotating the Fusion Set to identify the protection(s) selected is optional only (not mandatory).
  4. Follow the instructions below to use the Fusion Set ID inside any standard mobile DevOps or CI/CD toolkit like Bitrise, App Center, Jenkins, Travis, Team City, Circle CI or other system:
    
    Build an API for the app – for instructions, see the tasks under Appdome API Reference Guide
    
    Look for sample APIs in Appdome’s GitHub Repository
2. Building the Prevent Cookie Hijacking feature via Appdome Console
  
  To build the Prevent Cookie Hijacking protection by using Appdome Console, follow the instructions below.
  1. Where: Inside the Appdome Console, go to Build > Security Tab > Secure Communication section.
    Like all other options in ONEShield™, Prevent Cookie Hijacking is turned on by default, as shown below:
    Figure 3: Prevent Cookie Hijacking option
    Note: The App Compromise Notification contains an easy to follow default remediation path for the mobile app end user. You can customize this message as required to achieve brand specific support, workflow or other messaging.
  2. How: Check whether MiTM Prevention is toggled On (enabled), otherwise enable it . You can see that the feature Prevent Cookie Hijacking is enabled by default, as shown below.
    
    Figure 3: Prevent Cookie Hijacking option
  3. When you enable MiTM Prevention you'll notice that your Fusion Set you created in step 2.1.1 now bears the icon of the protection category that contains Prevent Cookie Hijacking
    
    Figure 4: Fusion Set that displays the newly added Prevent Cookie Hijacking protection
  4. Click Build My App at the bottom of the Build Workflow (shown in Figure 3).
Congratulations! The Prevent Cookie Hijacking protection is now added to the mobile app
Certify the Prevent Cookie Hijacking feature in Mobile Apps.

After building Prevent Cookie Hijacking, Appdome generates a Certified Secure™ certificate to guarantee that the Prevent Cookie Hijacking protection has been added and is protecting the app. To verify that the Prevent Cookie Hijacking protection has been added to the mobile app, locate the protection in the Certified Secure™ certificate as shown below:

Figure 5: Certified Secure™ certificate

Each Certified Secure™ certificate provides DevOps and DevSecOps organizations the entire workflow summary, audit trail of each build, and proof of protection that Prevent Cookie Hijacking has been added to each Mobile app. Certified Secure provides instant and in-line DevSecOps compliance certification that Prevent Cookie Hijacking and other mobile app security features are in each build of the mobile app

Using Threat-Events™ for Cookie Hijacking Intelligence and Control in Mobile Apps

Appdome Threat-Events™ provides consumable in-app mobile app attack intelligence and defense control when Cookie Hijacking is detected. To consume and use Threat-Events™ for Cookie Hijacking in Mobile Apps, use AddObserverForName in Notification Center, and the code samples for Threat-Events™ for Cookie Hijacking shown below.

The specifications and options for Threat-Events™ for Cookie Hijacking are:

Threat-Event™ Elements	Prevent Cookie Hijacking Method Detail
Appdome Feature Name	Prevent Cookie Hijacking
Threat-Event Mode
OFF, IN-APP DEFENSE	Appdome detects, defends and notifies user (standard OS dialog) using customizable messaging.
ON, IN-APP DETECTION	Appdome detects the attack or threat and passes the event in a standard format to the app for processing (app chooses how and when to enforce).
ON, IN-APP DEFENSE	Uses Appdome Enforce mode for any attack or threat and passes the event in a standard format to the app for processing (gather intel on attacks and threats without losing any protection).
Certified Secure™ Threat Event Check
Visible in ThreatScope™
Developer Parameters for Preventing Cookie Hijacking Threat-Event™
Threat-Event NAME	SslCertificateValidationFailed
Threat-Event DATA	reasonData
Threat-Event CODE	reasonCode
Threat-Event REF	6500
Threat-Event SCORE
currentThreatEventScore	Current Threat-Event score
threatEventsScore	Total Threat-events score

Threat-Event Context Keys
message	Message displayed for the user on event
externalID	The external ID of the event which can be listened via Threat Events
osVersion	OS version of the current device
deviceModel	Current device model
deviceManufacturer	The manufacturer of the current device
fusedAppToken	The task ID of the Appdome fusion of the currently running app
kernelInfo	Info about the kernel: system name, node name, release, version and machine.
carrierPlmn	PLMN of the device
deviceID	Current device ID
reasonCode	Reason code of the occured event
buildDate	Appdome fusion date of the current application
devicePlatform	OS name of the current device
carrierName	Carrier name of the current device
updatedOSVersion	Is the OS version up to date
deviceBrand	Brand of the device
deviceBoard	Board of the device
buildUser	Build user
buildHost	Build host
sdkVersion	Sdk version
timeZone	Time zone
deviceFaceDown	Is the device face down
locationLong	Location longitude conditioned by location permission
locationLat	Location latitude conditioned by location permission
locationState	Location state conditioned by location permission
wifiSsid	Wifi SSID
wifiSsidPermissionStatus	Wifi SSID permission status
host	The host that failed certificate validation
DeveventDetailedErrorMessage	Error message
extendedMessageText	Extended message
certificateCN	Certificate common name
certificateSHA1	Certificate SHA1

With Threat-Events™ enabled (turned ON), Mobile developers can get detailed attack intelligence and granular defense control in Mobile applications and create amazing user experiences for all mobile end users when Cookie Hijacking is detected.

The following is a code sample for native Mobile apps, which uses all values in the specification above for Prevent Cookie Hijacking:

                    IntentFilter intentFilter = new IntentFilter();
                    intentFilter.addAction("SslCertificateValidationFailed");
                    BroadcastReceiver threatEventReceiver = new BroadcastReceiver() {
                        @Override
                        public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
                            String message = intent.getStringExtra("message"); // Message shown to the user
                            String reasonData = intent.getStringExtra("reasonData"); // Threat detection cause
                            String reasonCode = intent.getStringExtra("reasonCode"); // Event reason code
                            String currentThreatEventScore = intent.getStringExtra("currentThreatEventScore"); // Current threat event score
                            String threatEventsScore = intent.getStringExtra("threatEventsScore"); // Total threat events score
                            String variable = intent.getStringExtra(""); // Any other event specific context key

                            // Your logic goes here (Send data to Splunk/Dynatrace/Show Popup...)
                        }
                    };

                    if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.TIRAMISU) {
                        registerReceiver(threatEventReceiver, intentFilter, Context.RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED);
                    } else {
                        registerReceiver(threatEventReceiver, intentFilter);
                    }

Java
x
 
IntentFilter intentFilter = new IntentFilter();
intentFilter.addAction("SslCertificateValidationFailed");
BroadcastReceiver threatEventReceiver = new BroadcastReceiver() {
    @Override
    public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
        String message = intent.getStringExtra("message"); // Message shown to the user
        String reasonData = intent.getStringExtra("reasonData"); // Threat detection cause
        String reasonCode = intent.getStringExtra("reasonCode"); // Event reason code
        String currentThreatEventScore = intent.getStringExtra("currentThreatEventScore"); // Current threat event score
        String threatEventsScore = intent.getStringExtra("threatEventsScore"); // Total threat events score
        String variable = intent.getStringExtra("<Context Key>"); // Any other event specific context key
​
        // Your logic goes here (Send data to Splunk/Dynatrace/Show Popup...)
    }
};
​
if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.TIRAMISU) {
    registerReceiver(threatEventReceiver, intentFilter, Context.RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED);
} else {
    registerReceiver(threatEventReceiver, intentFilter);
}

                    val intentFilter = IntentFilter()
                    intentFilter.addAction("SslCertificateValidationFailed")
                    val threatEventReceiver = object : BroadcastReceiver() {
                        override fun onReceive(context: Context?, intent: Intent?) {
                            var message = intent?.getStringExtra("message") // Message shown to the user
                            var reasonData = intent?.getStringExtra("reasonData") // Threat detection cause
                            var reasonCode = intent?.getStringExtra("reasonCode") // Event reason code
                            var currentThreatEventScore = intent?.getStringExtra("currentThreatEventScore") // Current threat event score
                            var threatEventsScore = intent?.getStringExtra("threatEventsScore") // Total threat events score
                            var variable = intent?.getStringExtra("") // Any other event specific context key

                            // Your logic goes here (Send data to Splunk/Dynatrace/Show Popup...)
                        }
                    }

                    if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.TIRAMISU) {
                        registerReceiver(threatEventReceiver, intentFilter, Context.RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED)
                    } else {
                        registerReceiver(threatEventReceiver, intentFilter)
                    }

                         
                        Kotlin
                    
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val intentFilter = IntentFilter()
intentFilter.addAction("SslCertificateValidationFailed")
val threatEventReceiver = object : BroadcastReceiver() {
    override fun onReceive(context: Context?, intent: Intent?) {
        var message = intent?.getStringExtra("message") // Message shown to the user
        var reasonData = intent?.getStringExtra("reasonData") // Threat detection cause
        var reasonCode = intent?.getStringExtra("reasonCode") // Event reason code
        var currentThreatEventScore = intent?.getStringExtra("currentThreatEventScore") // Current threat event score
        var threatEventsScore = intent?.getStringExtra("threatEventsScore") // Total threat events score
        var variable = intent?.getStringExtra("<Context Key>") // Any other event specific context key
​
        // Your logic goes here (Send data to Splunk/Dynatrace/Show Popup...)
    }
}
​
if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.TIRAMISU) {
    registerReceiver(threatEventReceiver, intentFilter, Context.RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED)
} else {
    registerReceiver(threatEventReceiver, intentFilter)
}

let center = NotificationCenter.default
                center.addObserver(forName: Notification.Name("SslCertificateValidationFailed"), object: nil, queue: nil) { (note) in
                    guard let usrInf = note.userInfo else {
                        return
                    }

                    let message = usrInf["message"]; // Message shown to the user
                    let reasonData = usrInf["reasonData"]; // Threat detection cause
                    let reasonCode = usrInf["reasonCode"]; // Event reason code
                    let currentThreatEventScore = usrInf["currentThreatEventScore"]; // Current threat event score
                    let threatEventsScore = usrInf["threatEventsScore"]; // Total threat events score
                    let variable = usrInf["<Context Key>"]; // Any other event specific context key

                    // Your logic goes here (Send data to Splunk/Dynatrace/Show Popup...)
                }

                         
                        Swift
                    
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let center = NotificationCenter.default
center.addObserver(forName: Notification.Name("SslCertificateValidationFailed"), object: nil, queue: nil) { (note) in
    guard let usrInf = note.userInfo else {
        return
    }
​
    let message = usrInf["message"]; // Message shown to the user
    let reasonData = usrInf["reasonData"]; // Threat detection cause
    let reasonCode = usrInf["reasonCode"]; // Event reason code
    let currentThreatEventScore = usrInf["currentThreatEventScore"]; // Current threat event score
    let threatEventsScore = usrInf["threatEventsScore"]; // Total threat events score
    let variable = usrInf["<Context Key>"]; // Any other event specific context key
​
    // Your logic goes here (Send data to Splunk/Dynatrace/Show Popup...)
}

[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserverForName:  "SslCertificateValidationFailed" object:nil queue:nil usingBlock:^(NSNotification *org_note) {
                    __block NSNotification *note = org_note;
                    dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^(void) {
                        NSString *message = [[note userInfo] objectForKey:@"message"]; // Message shown to the user
                        NSString *reasonData = [[note userInfo] objectForKey:@"reasonData"]; // Threat detection cause
                        NSString *reasonCode = [[note userInfo] objectForKey:@"reasonCode"]; // Event reason code
                        NSString *currentThreatEventScore = [[note userInfo] objectForKey:@"currentThreatEventScore"]; // Current threat event score
                        NSString *threatEventsScore = [[note userInfo] objectForKey:@"threatEventsScore"]; // Total threat events score
                        NSString *variable = [[note userInfo] objectForKey:@"<Context Key>"]; // Any other event specific context key

                        // Your logic goes here (Send data to Splunk/Dynatrace/Show Popup...)
                    });
                }];

                         
                        Objective-C
                    
​x
 
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserverForName:  @"SslCertificateValidationFailed" object:nil queue:nil usingBlock:^(NSNotification *org_note) {
    __block NSNotification *note = org_note;
    dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^(void) {
        NSString *message = [[note userInfo] objectForKey:@"message"]; // Message shown to the user
        NSString *reasonData = [[note userInfo] objectForKey:@"reasonData"]; // Threat detection cause
        NSString *reasonCode = [[note userInfo] objectForKey:@"reasonCode"]; // Event reason code
        NSString *currentThreatEventScore = [[note userInfo] objectForKey:@"currentThreatEventScore"]; // Current threat event score
        NSString *threatEventsScore = [[note userInfo] objectForKey:@"threatEventsScore"]; // Total threat events score
        NSString *variable = [[note userInfo] objectForKey:@"<Context Key>"]; // Any other event specific context key
​
        // Your logic goes here (Send data to Splunk/Dynatrace/Show Popup...)
    });
}];

const { ADDevEvents } = NativeModules;
                const aDDevEvents = new NativeEventEmitter(ADDevEvents);

                function registerToDevEvent(action, callback) {
                    NativeModules.ADDevEvents.registerForDevEvent(action);
                    aDDevEvents.addListener(action, callback);
                }

                export function registerToAllEvents() {
                    registerToDevEvent(
                        "SslCertificateValidationFailed",
                        (userinfo) => Alert.alert(JSON.stringify(userinfo))

                        var message = userinfo["message"] // Message shown to the user
                        var reasonData = userinfo["reasonData"] // Threat detection cause
                        var reasonCode = userinfo["reasonCode"] // Event reason code
                        var currentThreatEventScore = userinfo["currentThreatEventScore"] // Current threat event score
                        var threatEventsScore = userinfo["threatEventsScore"] // Total threat events score
                        var variable = userinfo["<Context Key>"] // Any other event specific context key

                        // Your logic goes here (Send data to Splunk/Dynatrace/Show Popup...)
                    );
                }

                     
                    React Native
                
​x
 
const { ADDevEvents } = NativeModules;
const aDDevEvents = new NativeEventEmitter(ADDevEvents);
​
function registerToDevEvent(action, callback) {
    NativeModules.ADDevEvents.registerForDevEvent(action);
    aDDevEvents.addListener(action, callback);
}
​
export function registerToAllEvents() {
    registerToDevEvent(
        "SslCertificateValidationFailed",
        (userinfo) => Alert.alert(JSON.stringify(userinfo))
​
        var message = userinfo["message"] // Message shown to the user
        var reasonData = userinfo["reasonData"] // Threat detection cause
        var reasonCode = userinfo["reasonCode"] // Event reason code
        var currentThreatEventScore = userinfo["currentThreatEventScore"] // Current threat event score
        var threatEventsScore = userinfo["threatEventsScore"] // Total threat events score
        var variable = userinfo["<Context Key>"] // Any other event specific context key
​
        // Your logic goes here (Send data to Splunk/Dynatrace/Show Popup...)
    );
}
​

RegisterReceiver(new ThreatEventReceiver(), new IntentFilter("SslCertificateValidationFailed"));
                class ThreatEventReceiver : BroadcastReceiver
                {
                public override void OnReceive(Context context, Intent intent)
                {
                    String message = intent.GetStringExtra("message"); // Message shown to the user
                    String reasonData = intent.GetStringExtra("reasonData"); // Threat detection cause
                    String reasonCode = intent.GetStringExtra("reasonCode"); // Event reason code
                    String currentThreatEventScore = intent.GetStringExtra("currentThreatEventScore"); // Current threat event score
                    String threatEventsScore = intent.GetStringExtra("threatEventsScore"); // Total threat events score
                    String variable = intent.GetStringExtra("<Context Key>"); // Any other event specific context key

                    // Your logic goes here (Send data to Splunk/Dynatrace/Show Popup...)
                }
                }

                    
                    Xamarin/MAUI Android
                
​x
 
RegisterReceiver(new ThreatEventReceiver(), new IntentFilter("SslCertificateValidationFailed"));
​
class ThreatEventReceiver : BroadcastReceiver
{
  public override void OnReceive(Context context, Intent intent)
  {
    String message = intent.GetStringExtra("message"); // Message shown to the user
    String reasonData = intent.GetStringExtra("reasonData"); // Threat detection cause
    String reasonCode = intent.GetStringExtra("reasonCode"); // Event reason code
    String currentThreatEventScore = intent.GetStringExtra("currentThreatEventScore"); // Current threat event score
    String threatEventsScore = intent.GetStringExtra("threatEventsScore"); // Total threat events score
    String variable = intent.GetStringExtra("<Context Key>"); // Any other event specific context key
​
    // Your logic goes here (Send data to Splunk/Dynatrace/Show Popup...)
  }
}

                NSNotificationCenter.DefaultCenter.AddObserver(
                    (NSString)"JailbrokenDevice", // Threat-Event Identifier
                    delegate (NSNotification notification)
                    {
                        var message = notification.UserInfo.ObjectForKey("message"); // Message shown to the user
                        var reasonData = notification.UserInfo.ObjectForKey("reasonData"); // Threat detection cause
                        var reasonCode = notification.UserInfo.ObjectForKey("reasonCode"); // Event reason code
                        var currentThreatEventScore = notification.UserInfo.ObjectForKey("currentThreatEventScore"); // Current threat event score
                        var threatEventsScore = notification.UserInfo.ObjectForKey("threatEventsScore"); // Total threat events score
                        var variable = notification.UserInfo.ObjectForKey(""); // Any other event specific context key
                        // Your logic goes here (Send data to Splunk/Dynatrace/Show Popup...)
                    });

                    
                    Xamarin/MAUI iOS
                
 
NSNotificationCenter.DefaultCenter.AddObserver(
  (NSString)"SslCertificateValidationFailed", // Threat-Event Identifier
  delegate (NSNotification notification)
  {
    var message = notification.UserInfo.ObjectForKey("message"); // Message shown to the user
    var reasonData = notification.UserInfo.ObjectForKey("reasonData"); // Threat detection cause
    var reasonCode = notification.UserInfo.ObjectForKey("reasonCode"); // Event reason code
    var currentThreatEventScore = notification.UserInfo.ObjectForKey("currentThreatEventScore"); // Current threat event score
    var threatEventsScore = notification.UserInfo.ObjectForKey("threatEventsScore"); // Total threat events score
    var variable = notification.UserInfo.ObjectForKey("<Context Keys>"); // Any other event specific context key
    // Your logic goes here (Send data to Splunk/Dynatrace/Show Popup...)
  });

window.broadcaster.addEventListener("SslCertificateValidationFailed", function(userInfo) {
        var message = userInfo.message // Message shown to the user
        var reasonData = userInfo.reasonData // Threat detection cause
        var reasonCode = userInfo.reasonCode // Event reason code
        var currentThreatEventScore = userInfo.currentThreatEventScore // Current threat event score
        var threatEventsScore = userInfo.threatEventsScore // Total threat events score
        var variable = userInfo.<Context Key> // Any other event specific context key

        // Your logic goes here (Send data to Splunk/Dynatrace/Show Popup...)
            });

                    
                    Cordova
                
​x
 
window.broadcaster.addEventListener("SslCertificateValidationFailed", function(userInfo) {
        var message = userInfo.message // Message shown to the user
        var reasonData = userInfo.reasonData // Threat detection cause
        var reasonCode = userInfo.reasonCode // Event reason code
        var currentThreatEventScore = userInfo.currentThreatEventScore // Current threat event score
        var threatEventsScore = userInfo.threatEventsScore // Total threat events score
        var variable = userInfo.<Context Key> // Any other event specific context key
​
        // Your logic goes here (Send data to Splunk/Dynatrace/Show Popup...)
});

                import 'dart:async';
                import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
                import 'package:flutter/services.dart';

                class PlatformChannel extends StatefulWidget {
                  const PlatformChannel({super.key});

                  @override
                  State<PlatformChannel> createState() => _PlatformChannelState();
                }

                class _PlatformChannelState extends State<PlatformChannel> {
                  static const String _eventChannelName = "SslCertificateValidationFailed"; // Replace with your EventChannel name
                  static const EventChannel _eventChannel = EventChannel(_eventChannelName);

                  @override
                  void initState() {
                    super.initState();
                    _eventChannel.receiveBroadcastStream().listen(_onEvent, onError: _onError);
                  }

                  void _onEvent(Object? event) {
                    setState(() {
                      // Adapt this section based on your specific event data structure
                      var eventData = event as Map;

                      // Example: Accessing 'externalID' field from the event
                      var externalID = eventData['externalID'];

                      // Customize the rest of the fields based on your event structure
                      String message = eventData['message']; // Message shown to the user
                      String reasonData = eventData['reasonData']; // Threat detection cause
                      String reasonCode = eventData['reasonCode']; // Event reason code
                      String currentThreatEventScore = eventData['currentThreatEventScore']; // Current threat event score
                      String threatEventsScore = eventData['threatEventsScore']; // Total threat events score

                      // Any other event specific context key
                      String variable = eventData['<Context Key>'];
                    });
                  }

                  // Your logic goes here (Send data to Splunk/Dynatrace/Show Popup...)
                }

                    
                    Flutter
                
xxxxxxxxxx
 
import 'dart:async';
​
import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
import 'package:flutter/services.dart';
​
class PlatformChannel extends StatefulWidget {
  const PlatformChannel({super.key});
​
  @override
  State<PlatformChannel> createState() => _PlatformChannelState();
}
​
class _PlatformChannelState extends State<PlatformChannel> {
  static const String _eventChannelName = 'SslCertificateValidationFailed'; // Replace with your EventChannel name
  static const EventChannel _eventChannel = EventChannel(_eventChannelName);
​
  @override
  void initState() {
    super.initState();
    _eventChannel.receiveBroadcastStream().listen(_onEvent, onError: _onError);
  }
​
  void _onEvent(Object? event) {
    setState(() {
      // Adapt this section based on your specific event data structure
      var eventData = event as Map;
​
      // Example: Accessing 'externalID' field from the event
      var externalID = eventData['externalID'];
​
      // Customize the rest of the fields based on your event structure
      String message = eventData['message']; // Message shown to the user
      String reasonData = eventData['reasonData']; // Threat detection cause
      String reasonCode = eventData['reasonCode']; // Event reason code
      String currentThreatEventScore = eventData['currentThreatEventScore']; // Current threat event score
      String threatEventsScore = eventData['threatEventsScore']; // Total threat events score
​
      // Any other event specific context key
      String variable = eventData['<Context Key>'];
    });
  }
​
  // Your logic goes here (Send data to Splunk/Dynatrace/Show Popup...)
}

Using Appdome, there are no development or coding prerequisites to build secured Mobile Apps by using Prevent Cookie Hijacking. There is no SDK and no library to code or implement in the app and no gateway to deploy in your network. All protections are built into each app and the resulting app is self-defending and self-protecting.

Releasing and Publishing Mobile Apps with Prevent Cookie Hijacking

After successfully securing your app by using Appdome, there are several available options to complete your project, depending on your app lifecycle or workflow. These include:

Customizing, Configuring & Branding Secure Mobile Apps
Deploying/Publishing Secure mobile apps to Public or Private app stores
Releasing Secured Android & iOS Apps built on Appdome.

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How to Prevent SSL Cookie Hijacking in Android & iOS Apps

What is Cookie Hijacking?

Why Prevent Cookie Hijacking in Mobile Apps?

Prerequisites for Using Prevent Cookie Hijacking:

Prevent Cookie Hijacking on Mobile apps using Appdome

Upload the Mobile App to Appdome.

Upload an app to Appdome’s Mobile App Security Build System

Build the feature: Prevent Cookie Hijacking.

Building Prevent Cookie Hijacking by using Appdome’s DEV-API:

Building the Prevent Cookie Hijacking feature via Appdome Console

Certify the Prevent Cookie Hijacking feature in Mobile Apps.

Using Threat-Events™ for Cookie Hijacking Intelligence and Control in Mobile Apps

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