Latitude scores 18

Malcore scores the Latitude mobile banking app at 18 threat points.

A note on these insights.

The findings outlined in this blog post were drawn from the condensed results of a Malcore scan. To review the exhaustive findings of Malcore’s static analysis of Latitude’s mobile banking app APK, click the button below.

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Discovered Trackers

Facebook Flipper
Google CrashLytics
Google Firebase Analytics
Tealium

High severity warnings from code analysis

Insecure Implementation of SSL. Trusting all the certificates or accepting self signed certificates is a critical Security Hole. This application is vulnerable to MITM attacks

The App uses an insecure Random Number Generator.

App uses SQLite Database and execute raw SQL query. Untrusted user input in raw SQL queries can cause SQL Injection. Also sensitive information should be encrypted and written to the database.

Files may contain hardcoded sensitive informations like usernames, passwords, keys etc.

App creates temp file. Sensitive information should never be written into a temp file.

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Suspicious severity warnings from code analysis

This App has capabilities to prevent against Screenshots from Recent Task History/ Now On Tap etc.

Application attempts to discover build version of device

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Dangerous Labelled permissions from Android

Android Dangerous labelled permissions as Dangerous from this library https://developer.android.com/reference/android/Manifest.permission.

Name: WRITE_SETTINGS

Description: Allows an application to modify the system's settings data. Malicious applications can corrupt your system's configuration.

Name: READ_SETTINGS

Description: Allows applications to read the global setting of the device it is running on

Name: ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE

Description: Allows an application to view the status of all networks.

Name: NFC

Description: Allows an application to communicate with Near-Field Communication (NFC) tags, cards and readers.

Name: WAKE_LOCK

Description: Allows an application to prevent the phone from going to sleep.

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To view how these results compare within industry sector and region see our analysis:

Banking Apps, Australia 🇦🇺

To view how these scores are created visit our transparency post where we published a description of our phone application threat scoring algorithm.

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