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Appthority, the enterprise mobile threat protection company, announced news on Thursday (Nov. 9) that it published research on its recent discovery of a so-called Eavesdropper vulnerability, in which hackers can intercept texts, voice messages and other user data from millions of smartphones through their mobile apps.
In a press release, the company said the cyberattack vulnerability is caused by “developers carelessly hard coding their credentials in mobile applications that use the Twilio Rest API or SDK, despite best practices the company clearly outlines in its documentation.” Twilio, said Appthority, has reached out to all developers with affected apps and is actively working to secure their accounts.
According to the company,...
