Cybersecurity company Citizen Lab has discovered significant changes in the world’s most popular smartphone keyboard apps. vulnerabilities Has detected. Cybersecurity experts examined the keyboard applications of companies such as Baidu, HONOR, Huawei, iFlytek, OPPO, Samsung, Tencent, vivo and Xiaomi, and found that the applications keystrokes They announced that it could be transferred to third parties.

According to the statement, there are mainly security problems Has Chinese language support It was in the applications that were. Developers pull Chinese typing predictions from cloud servers instead of embedding them on the device, and use secure encryption methods between these servers and keyboard applications. was not used. Citizen Lab found that Samsung’s keyboard app doesn’t even have encryption, while others rely on end-to-end encryption instead. simple and unsafe methods discovers that it has been used.

At least one billion users are believed to be affected

According to Citizen Lab’s statement, there may be security issues in keyboard applications at least 1 billion users Impressed. However, it is unclear whether cyber attackers are exploiting these vulnerabilities. unknown for now.

According to cybersecurity researchers, Huawei’s keyboard app is vulnerable to end-to-end encryption was better than others. Citizen Lab officials say keyboard applications from Apple and Google are also secure because these applications are connected to a server. not communicating they express. In the meantime; We are also in contact with the developers of keyboard applications where security vulnerabilities have been detected, to close the vulnerabilities. studies was done Let’s say it too.