Bad news for Android users: a team of researchers has discovered 41 applications in the store Play Google that could be leaking important data to sites dedicated to sharing this kind of information.
Researchers from two universities in Germany have made a study of which have concluded that many apps on Android can have serious encryption.
The team used a Galaxy Nexus with Android 4.0 to do the research. Free applications fell 13,500 from Play, which found that 8%, equivalent to approximately 1074 applications, were vulnerable code that could be used by an attacker to intercept our data, and by that I mean usernames , passwords, credit card and the like.
The researchers simulated attacks and managed to get some data bank, PayPal payments, American Express and many others. Also managed to gain data from Facebook, mail, cloud storage service and more.
The names of the vulnerable applications were not disclosed. Furthermore, it appears that Google declined to comment.
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