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SHOCKER: CHEETAH MOBILE'S CM LAUNCHER KEEPS DATA IN UNSECURED CLOUD STORAGE

By Corbin Davenport
Published May 23, 2019


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Mobile app empire Cheetah Mobile not only makes terrible software, but has even
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If you somehow need more reasons not to use apps from the company, one developer
has discovered that some applications, including CM Launcher, store data in an
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Developer Till Kottmann tore apart the APK for CM Launcher 3D on Twitter, and
among some sketchy calls to random servers, it was discovered that CM Launcher
stores themes, icons, wallpapers, and other installable data in an unsecured
Amazon AWS bucket.




In layman's terms, anyone can upload data to the server that CM Launcher and
other Cheetah apps download data from. As Till described on Twitter, someone
could easily modify the stored data to cause CM Launcher to crash, or worse.



I'm sure Cheetah Mobile will fix thi.... nevermind, I can't even finish that
sentence. Ya'll know just as well as I do that Cheetah doesn't give a 💩.


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