A team of cyber security researchers from the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security in Saarbrücken, Ohio State University, and New York University has discovered that many mobile apps are hiding special functions to users that that can allow hackers to compromise users’ and mobile app infrastructure security. In a large-scale study, a team of cyber security researchers, including CISPA-Faculty Giancarlo Pellegrino, identified severe security issues in several mobile phone apps. These are not typical vulnerabilities that were inadvertently introduced by the programmers. “These problems look very intentional. Many of these functionalities that are hidden or covert to the user,” explains Pellegrino. “They allow others to access private data or block content provided by users”. 150,000 apps were evaluated for this study. The 100,000 most downloaded apps from the Google Play Store were examined. In addition, the 20,000 most downloaded apps from an alternative app store and 30,000 pre-installed apps on various…

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