New research suggests that mobile applications boasting tens of millions of downloads are leaking sensitive user data due to the misconfiguration of back-end cloud databases, according to Check Point. Check Point's three-month study began with a simple query on VirusTotal for mobile apps listed on the malware scanning service that communicates with the Firebase cloud database. Using this method, the vendor discovered 2113 mobile apps that had their Firebase back-end exposed due to misconfigurations. The vendor...
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