Delete this Android app right now

[Andy Meek]

• Reports are circulating this week about a new Android app to be wary of -- it's called SHAREit, an app that has both an iOS and Android version, and it's been downloaded from the Google Play Store more than 1 billion times.
• The security firm Trend Micro issued a report about the app that cites a number of security flaws which the firm says haven't been patched for at least a few months.
• The security problems include the possibility that the app could be used for remote code execution, as well as leaking a user's sensitive personal information.

If you happen to have the SHAREit app installed on your phone, you'll definitely want to be aware of a new report from the security firm Trend Micro about this particular Android app -- which has unpatched security bugs that apparently have gone unfixed for a few months. According to the researchers, this means that the Android version of this app could be used to hijack phones as well as to steal personal data.

Trend Micro says that the vulnerabilities in the Android version of the app, which has been downloaded more than 1 billion times, "can be abused to leak a user’s sensitive data, execute arbitrary code, and possibly lead to remote code execution." And while the problems haven't been fixed as of the time of this writing, Google has reportedly been told about the issues. It's also important to note -- none of this applies to the IOS version of the app, per Trend Micro.

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