Android is the most used operating system for mobile phones, as you already know very well, over 3 billion mobile devices are currently active with this operating system. The very large number of people using Android at the moment is an element that attracts hackers who are interested in exploiting it, and unfortunately the number of attacks against us is increasing and because of a very serious problem.
Android is thought of as an operating system that gives its users the freedom they need to do anything in their own devices, but from here comes the big problem in terms of security. According to a recent study of the most popular Android applications, it seems that the applications in our phones have, on average, 39 vulnerabilities each, and this opens up a lot of exploitation possibilities for hackers.
Android: The Warning Notice for Billions of Phones
Android has the biggest problems with free or paid games, in which the most vulnerabilities were discovered by the creators of the study you can see above. The biggest problem is that bank applications and those for interbank payments are also full of vulnerabilities, and in their case the situation is much more serious because people's money is at stake, and from here extremely serious problems can arise for their developers.
"In total, 3.137 unique vulnerabilities were found in the first quarter of 2021 that appeared more than 82.000 times in Android apps," the report said. A total of 73% of vulnerabilities were first disclosed more than two years ago. However, they were still present in Android apps in the first quarter of this year. Educational apps had the highest number of exploitable Android vulnerabilities with possible fixes as of the first quarter of 2021 – 43%. Meanwhile, productivity and banking apps took second and third place on the list. They contained 41% and 39% of such vulnerabilities, respectively.”
Android is not always the source of discovered vulnerabilities, and this is because many of them are related to the way the application code is written, or the implementation of new functions in them. In this idea, problems often come from the developers of Android applications and not from the Google company, so the solutions must also come from those who produce the applications they offer to mobile phone users all over the world.
Android constantly has various vulnerabilities solved by Google, some of them also solving the problems that the applications have, but more often the intervention of the developers is needed for this.
