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Security Tales: Malicious App
Vladimir Bezmaly | 13.02.2017
- Good morning, Johann!

- Good morning!

— We received a strange application for analysis.

- Where?

- Kurt brought it. As usual.

— But seriously?

- Well, tinker with various new software for smartphones.

- Call Kurt!

— Good morning, boss! I have discovered unusual albania whatsapp data of the service, which is embedded in many popular mobile applications. As it turns out, it can be used to record video from the application screen to track the entry of bank card data or login to the payment system. Thus, the tool can be used not only for analytics, but also for fraudulent purposes. Apparently, one of the developers added this service to this application without permission.

- Well... The service is legal, it is used almost everywhere... What are we going to do?

— The service is legal, but it does not save from unscrupulous programmers who can embed such services into applications. In such a situation, one can only advise application development companies to more closely monitor what their employees are doing, and users to be more picky about mobile applications that require entering their payment data. That is, in the end, everything comes down to either the competent work of the developer's information security service, or the integrity of its specialists...

— Things are very bad, and we can’t do anything! After all, most developers simply don’t have a security service! And we simply can’t trust in universal decency! Is it really so risky to use smartphones for mobile payments?

— And not just payment apps? What about password protection? Email? Confidential data?

- I don't know, Kurt! I don't know!