Watch Out, There Are Dangerous Bugs In The SHAREit Application

JAKARTA - The SHAREit application has quite a number of users who come from Indonesia. Quoting data from ExpandedRamblings, the number of users from India and Indonesia has reached 600 million. In fact, according to the latest data obtained by App Annie, this application has 1.8 billion users from all over the world.

This application was originally developed as part of the default application Lenovo. However, for reasons unknown, the company decided to separate from Lenovo and make its apps accessible to more devices.

As is known, SHAREit is an application that provides file sharing services. The ease of data transfer is one of the main attractions of this application.

In fact, according to company claims, users can transmit data at speeds of up to 20Mb / s. Making it the fastest data transfer service in the world!

However, who would have thought that this application, which is widely used on Chinese cellphones, actually has bugs. In fact, according to research by cybersecurity experts, the bug can make device security weaker so that hackers can easily infiltrate it.

Based on the findings of Trend Micro's smartphone threat analyst, Echo Duan, this bug has been in the app for three months. Until now, neither the developer nor the company have been able to resolve or improve.

"The perpetrator can send orders to run special code, overwrite the application's local files or even spy on third-party applications without being noticed by the user," said Echo Duan, quoted from Zdnet, Thursday, February 18.

Apart from that, the SHAREit app also has a bright so-called Man-in-the-Disk attack. Previously, this type of bug centered on insecure storage of application data resources and made cellphone storage space shareable with other applications.

"We have reported this vulnerability to vendors, but there has been no response until now," explained Duan.

Therefore, his party decided to disclose the research results, three months after the report was first made. The reason is, there are many users who could potentially be affected by the attack. Remembering the types of bugs can make devices more vulnerable to attacks and theft of sensitive data.

In addition, Duan also emphasized that his party had reported these findings to Google. However, Duan was reluctant to explain how the Play Store platform owner responded.