Researchers discovered various unusual activities in UC Browser for Android and it abusing the Google play policies and exposing more than 500 users to Man-in-the-Middle attacks. UC browser is the most popular browser in the Android platform with more than 500 million users and UC Browser Mini has 100 million downloads from the Google Play store alone. GBHackers on Security has been reported several UC browser-based incidents including malicious activities , vulnerabilities before and it is a very serious concern that needs to be addressed for any unusual behaviors since it will directly affect the hundreds of millions of users. Recent research from Zscaler reveals that the UC Browser and UC Browser Mini apps unusually made a request over unprotected (HTTP) channel to download an additional Android Package Kit from the remote server. There are 3 main unusual activities found from UC Browser app in this research : Downloadi...
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