Microsoft unveils risky Android apps: Over 4 Billion users at risk!

Microsoft revealed risky Android apps downloaded by over 4 billion users worldwide. Microsoft announced it had discovered a vulnerability pattern in multiple Android apps, giving a cybercriminal full control over how an app behaves.

Not that all but risky Android apps can even give threat actors access to a victim’s account and sensitive info, Microsoft disclosed. The vulnerability centers around the improper implementation of app isolation that can let threatful apps trick another app into overwriting files.

Two of the apps mentioned in the report include Xiami’s File Manager, which was installed more than a billion times, and WPS Office, which was downloaded over 500 million times. Microsoft notified the developers about the threat and worked with them to fix the problem.

Microsoft noted that more apps may be at risk due to the same vulnerability. The best part is that the company has shared its research so developers and publishers can check their apps for similar issues fix them as appropriate, and prevent introducing such vulnerabilities into new apps or releases.

“We identified several vulnerable applications in the Google Play Store that represented over four billion installations.” – Microsoft.

If you are using Xiaomi’s File Manager on your Xiaomi phone or the WPS Office app, ensure installing the latest version from the Google Play Store. As the vulnerabilities have been fixed, a regular app update from the official app market would address the risky flaw.

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