In
addition to draining the battery , on an application ad Android also has
security and privacy risks of user. Researchers from the University of North
Carolina State found an application that integrates with the ad is found a risk.
The researchers tested the 100,000 applications in Google's Play and see more
than half of them contain 'ad library,' as many as 297 applications are
'aggressive advertising library' that can download and run code from a specific
server.
The
researchers also found that more than 48,000 applications under study could
track the location via GPS, while others could see call records, phone numbers
and a list of all user applications. "Running the code that is downloaded
from the internet has big risk because it could be anything, 'says Dr Xuxian
Jiang, assistant professor of computer science at university. 'For instance, it
could potentially launch an attack' root exploit 'to control your phone, such
as newly discovered malware named RootSmart.
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