Luigi Vigneri, the company eurecom, downloaded 2,000 free applications of all 25 categories of applications that exist in the Android store. Then tested each in a smartphone with Android 4.1.2 installed version – specially developed to gather all Internet traffic, identifying the sites to which the applications trying to access.
To his surprise found that all applications linked up to a total of 250,000 URLs that were not related directly or indirectly to the application. While most applications only if connected to just a few sites, 10% of the analyzed apps accessed 500 links and in some cases, registered worse, the applications arrived to make a connection to more than 2,000 different URLs.
There was also the registration link to sites associated to suspicious domains, which in the investigator’s opinion is something that holds some gravity: not because there is an effective theft of personal data of users, but because an application is listed as “benign” by Google – and its code is – when in reality then connects to Web sites that may endanger the safety of equipment.
The Executive of Eurocom and his team are now developing an app that combats this problem links to hundreds or thousands of external sources. The NoSuchApp will monitor the phone’s outgoing traffic highlighting exactly where the link target applications.
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