Vulnerability in Shazam exposes the location of Android and iPhone users
2 January 2021
An IT security researcher Ashley king discovered a vulnerability which is affecting nearly 100 million users. The vulnerability lets an attacker send a malicious link which when clicked by a victim opens the Shazam app to execute the malware which sends the location of the user to the attacker
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