Vulnerable Android and iOS Apps Expose Billions to FREAK Flaw
Security experts have warned that 2,000 Android and iOS apps are still vulnerable to the much publicized FREAK flaw over a fortnight after it was first disclosed, exposing billions of users to data loss.
FireEye researchers scanned 10,985 Google Play Android apps with more than one million downloads each and found 1,228 (11.2%) were still vulnerable to FREAK.
These apps have been downloaded over 6.3 billion times, they said in a blog post. When it comes to iOS, 771 out of 14,079 (5.5%) popular apps were affected, although most of them only on versions of the OS earlier than the patched 8.2. Just seven of them remain vulnerable on the new OS, FireEye said. It should be noted that the security vendor conducted these tests on 10 March, so the numbers of affected apps may have dropped by now.
