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WireWatch: Measuring the Security of Proprietary Network Encryption in the Global Android Ecosystem

ID: 7302d7bf-7e5b-5359-97af-dc8103e2a873

STIX ID: report--7302d7bf-7e5b-5359-97af-dc8103e2a873

Feed Name: The Citizen Lab

Date Published: 2025-05-12

Date Updated: 2026-04-19

Author: Alyson Bruce

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Citizen Lab and Princeton researchers announce a study showing that many popular Chinese Android apps rely on weak, proprietary network encryption instead of TLS, posing security risks to users. The paper, “WireWatch: Measuring the security of proprietary network encryption in the global Android ecosystem,” will be presented at the 2025 IEEE Symposium on May 14, 2025.

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