It is undeniable , mobile banking apps in the Android and iOS platform has helped millions of bank customers across the globe . However , keep your eyes open ! A recent study found that almost all mobile banking applications offered by the bank turned out to contain security holes .
As reported by Phone Arena , Ariel Sanchez , from iOS Active Labs researcher , who discovered a security issue that said , 9 out of 10 or 90 percent of mobile banking applications are spread across a mobile application store has security holes . The percentage Sanchez found after testing 40 mobile banking application belongs to 60 leading banks in the world . Unfortunately , Sanchez was reluctant to divulge which banks are its mobile banking application was problematic .
Security loopholes that make it quite vulnerable to cyber criminals to attack in the form of " phishing " . The worst case scenario , a number of bank customers sensitive information , such as user ID , bank account numbers , credit card numbers , PIN numbers to be stolen by cyber criminals.
One way that is powerful enough for the hacker is posing as a bank . They then send an email to the target and asked to submit some personal data . And sometimes customers who become the target of hackers do not realize that the email is actually from hackers .
The irony of the results of the study, 70 percent of the 40 mobile banking application that does not have an alternative method of authentication security to prevent hackers do an impersonation account customers . Then 20 percent of the security code through the application sends a plain text file that risk communication can be utilized by criminals to drain customer
accounts . Some banks were also still not encrypt client information database.
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