Android apps downloaded over 6.3 billion times still vulnerable to FREAK
A total of 1,228 popular Android apps found in the Google Play store are still vulnerable to a FREAK attack, FireEye says.
Research published on Tuesday by the firm's security team disclosed just how vulnerable both Android and iOS apps still are to the FREAK bug.
FREAK is a cryptographic weakness which permits attackers to force data traveling between a vulnerable website or operating system to servers that use weak encryption protocols. If combined with a man-in-the-middle attack (MITM), the data could theoretically be intercepted and cracked as the user is unwittingly using a lower level of encryption than believed.
