Report by Zimperium

Your Apps are Leaking: The Hidden Data Risks on your Phone

5 FINDINGSPublished Apr 16, 2025
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Key Findings

43% of the top 100 apps use one or more cryptographic methods that do not follow best practices.

ZimperiumYour Apps are Leaking: The Hidden Data Risks on your Phone·Apr 16, 2025
AppCryptographic

88% of all apps use one or more cryptographic methods that do not follow best practices.

ZimperiumYour Apps are Leaking: The Hidden Data Risks on your Phone·Apr 16, 2025
AppCryptographic

103 of 9,078 analyzed Android apps were found to use unprotected or misconfigured cloud storage. 4 of these Android apps were in the top 1000 of the PlayStore popularity list.

ZimperiumYour Apps are Leaking: The Hidden Data Risks on your Phone·Apr 16, 2025
AppAndroidCloud

62% of all analysed apps use some kind of cloud API or SDK.

ZimperiumYour Apps are Leaking: The Hidden Data Risks on your Phone·Apr 16, 2025
App

10 of analyzed 9,078 Android apps contained exposed credentials to AWS cloud services.

ZimperiumYour Apps are Leaking: The Hidden Data Risks on your Phone·Apr 16, 2025
AppAndroidExposed credentialsAWS cloud service