{"id":5197,"date":"2020-09-09T07:18:42","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T07:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/?p=5197"},"modified":"2020-09-09T07:18:42","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T07:18:42","slug":"us-researchers-find-crypto-bugs-in-306-popular-android-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/?p=5197","title":{"rendered":"US researchers find crypto bugs in 306 popular Android apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New York:\u00a0<\/strong>A team of US researchers has developed a tool that can find cryptocurrency bugs in Android apps. Using the tool, they discovered crypto bugs in 306 popular Android applications.<\/p>\n<p>Named &#8216;CRYLOGGER&#8217;, the custom tool was used to test 1,780 Android apps across 33 different Google Play Store categories, ZDNet reported.<\/p>\n<p>The research team from Columbia University found crypto bugs in 306 popular Android apps and none was patched.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Only 18 of 306 app developers replied to the research team and only eight engaged with the team after the first email,&#8221; the report said, quoting the researchers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All the apps are popular: they have from hundreds of thousands of downloads to more than 100 million,&#8221; the research team was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>While some crypto bugs were in the app&#8217;s code, some common vulnerabilities were introduced as part of Java libraries used as part of the apps.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Since none of the developers fixed their apps and libraries, researchers refrained from publishing the names of the vulnerable apps and libraries, citing possible exploitation attempts against the apps&#8217; users&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The new tool, said the researchers, can be used by Android developers as a complementary utility to CryptoGuard.<\/p>\n<p>Just like CryptoGuard, CRYLOGGER&#8217;s code is also available on open source repository GitHub.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York:\u00a0A team of US researchers has developed a tool that can find cryptocurrency bugs in Android apps. Using the tool, they discovered crypto bugs in 306 popular Android applications. Named &#8216;CRYLOGGER&#8217;, the custom tool was used to test 1,780 Android apps across 33 different Google Play Store categories, ZDNet reported. The research team from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5197","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5199,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5197\/revisions\/5199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}