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Developers Targeted in ‘ParseDroid’ PoC Attack

December 7, 2017

Researchers have developed a proof of concept attack that could impact the millions of users of integrated development environments such as Intellij, Eclipse and Android Studio. Attacks can also be carried out against servers hosting development environments in the cloud.

The attack vector was identified by the Check Point Research Team, which on Tuesday released a proof of concept (PoC) it is calling ParseDroid.

“The vulnerabilities in question are the developer tools, both downloadable and cloud based, that the Android application ecosystem, the largest application community in the world, is using,” wrote Eran Vaknin, Gal Elbaz, Alon Boxiner and Oded Vanunu who co-authored the Check Point blog outlining the research.

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