According to a report conducted by Wegilant, most of the apps are vulnerable to security attacks with 82% apps carrying high severity vulnerabilities in them and that on an average, 14 security bugs per app are present.
The research unveils that 38% of the apps had improper content permissions vulnerabilities, 33% of the apps had an intent spoofing vulnerabilities and 22% of the apps were missing broadcaster permissions in them.
Intent spoofing refers to an attack where a malware induces undesired behaviour by forging an intent, fooling users into sharing their secure data with the hacker’s servers.
Wegilant has sampled 100 banks in the Asia-Pacific region, of which 33 were Indian banks.
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