Stop Neglecting Your Cloud Security Features>
Checkpoint Blog
Check Point Research (CPR) warns against bad practices in cloud-based application development that could lead to serious security breaches. Thousands of new applications every month have their Firebase databasess open leaving data exposed. In a course of three months, CPR found 2,113 mobile applications using Firebase, which made their way to Virus Total leaving victims unprotected and easily accessible for threat actors to exploit. Exposed information includes: chat messages in popular gaming apps, personal family photos, token IDs on a healthcare applications, data from cryptocurrency exchange platforms and more
Link: https://blog.checkpoint.com/2022/03/15/stop-neglecting-your-cloud-security-features-check-point-research-found-thousands-of-open-cloud-databases-exposing-data-in-the-wild/