• Redes.Twitter warns of a security problem with which your account can be stolen

A cybersecurity researcher has used the latest security flaw from the Twitter application for Android to extract 17 million phone numbers from users associated with platform accounts.

Last weekend, Twitter admitted a vulnerability in its application for Android devices that allowed, through malicious code , that an attacker could gain control of an account and access personal information or publish tweets. However, the company said it was not aware that it had been used in any attack .

According to TechCrunch, the researcher Ibrahim Balic discovered through the use of this security flaw that the Twitter contacts function allowed to upload lists of phone numbers and that in this way it was possible to obtain information from users .

In this way, Balic has claimed to have been able to match 17 million phone numbers with their respective Twitter accounts , after randomizing more than two billion phone numbers and uploading them to the platform's Android app. .

The phone numbers, coming from countries around the world among which are Israel, Turkey, Iran, Greece, Armenia, France and Germany, ceased to be accessible since December 20, when Twitter patched the error of its application to Through an update.

Twitter sent notifications directly to accounts that could have been exposed to the security problem through its app or by email, with different instructions to keep them protected depending on the version of the app.

The platform has generally recommended Twitter users for Android to update the application to the latest available version . The security issue has not affected Twitter for iOS.

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