Apps targeted at US troops contain Chinese and Russian code

Apps targeted at US troops contain Chinese and Russian code. More than one-eighth of apps analyzed contained foreign code.

A apuração publicada por arstechnica.com vira base para uma leitura editorial direta e contextualizada.

Trechos de apoio da pauta: A recent examination of hundreds of mobile apps marketed toward US military personnel found more than one in eight contained software built by companies in China, Russia, or other foreign nations, raising fresh concerns that adversary governments could harvest data revealing where service members live, work, and deploy. According to researchers at Purdue University, the US Military Academy at West Point, and Florida International University, one popular app used by service members to rate living conditions on their own bases include code from Huawei, the Chinese telecom that US regulators flagged as a national security threat in 2020.

• Ponto de atenção: apps.
• Ponto de atenção: targeted.
• Ponto de atenção: troops.

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