The Android apps on your phone each have 39 security vulnerabilities on average

guest · Jul 21, 2021

The Android apps on your phone each have 39 security vulnerabilities on average
And it's not just games, but important stuff like banking and payment apps.
July 20, 2021
https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-a...-have-39-security-vulnerabilities-on-average/

Over 60% of Android apps contain security vulnerabilities, with the average number of bugs per-app totaling a whopping 39 vulnerabilities. These figures are based on data presented by Atlas VPN, and data based on a report by CyRC, which analyzed the security of open-source software components of 3,335 free and paid mobile applications on the Google Play store as of Q1 2021.

The report makes sobering reading because it highlights the huge problems that Android users face when it comes to securing their smartphones.
And it's not just free apps and games.

The problems are across the board and affect apps such as banking and payment apps.
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Predictably, the category of top-free games was the worst, where 96% were found to contain vulnerable components. Following closely behind were top-grossing games and top-paid games.

"All in all, 3,137 unique vulnerabilities were found in Q1 2021 that appeared more than 82,000 times across Android apps," the report states. "A total of 73% of vulnerabilities had been first disclosed more than two years ago. However, they were still present in Android apps in the first quarter of this year."
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"Educational apps had the highest number of exploitable Android vulnerabilities with possible fixes as of the first quarter of 2021-- 43 percent. Meanwhile, productivity and banking apps occupied the second and third spots in the list. They contained 41 percent and 39 percent of such vulnerabilities, respectively."
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