Top Android App AirDroid Exposes Phones to Hacks, Dev Ignoring Security Bug

​AirDroid is currently one of the top Android apps available in the Google Play Store, with official statistics claiming that it already recorded between 10 million and 50 million downloads.

But being very popular doesn’t necessarily mean that the app is also entirely secure, and AirDroid is pretty much the best example.

Security company Zimperium has discovered security flaws in AirDroid that expose user data to cyber attacks, including usernames and passwords that are stored on the phone. And what’s worse is that the developers of AirDroid are already aware of the bug, but they don’t seem to be too interested in fixing it.

The bug

Specifically, Zimperium explains that AirDroid ships with several security issues that allow an attacker that uses the same network to launch a Man-in-the-Middle attack and...