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A Tough Nut to Crack

A Further Look at Privacy and Security Issues in UC Browser

In this report we analyze Windows and Android versions of web browser UC Browser, and find they transmitted personally identifiable information with easily decryptable encryption and were vulnerable to arbitrary code execution during software updates.

August 7, 2016
App Security & Privacy
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