Meta and Yandex Exploited Android Localhost to De-Anonymize Browsing Activity

Meta and Yandex, two of the world’s most influential data-driven platforms, have been implicated in a tracking method that subverts core privacy protections in Android. The method, discovered by academic researchers from Radboud University, KU Leuven, and IMDEA Networks, relies on the exploitation of localhost communications. This technique enables installed apps to receive and correlate … Read more