Experts find serious security flaws in miui

As many of you already know, MIUI is the personalization layer of Xiaomi phones. The new MIUI 9 version has recently been released, which is being incorporated into the models of the Chinese brand. It is a popular layer and one that users like. Although he faces a very serious problem.

Experts find serious security flaws in MIUI

A group of experts has been investigating the operation of the Xiaomi customization layer. And the result has been that they have found serious flaws that could be questioning the privacy of users.

MIUI security flaws

eScan have been in charge of carrying out this investigation. They claim that MIUI has various security breaches through which it would be possible to end up bringing problems to users. The MIUI system application that is responsible for uninstalling applications is a threat to the user. It has been detected that when an application is uninstalled in MIUI, no password is requested, something that does happen in other terminals. This assumes that user-installed security applications can be removed by MIUI, because the system does not require user interaction to verify this process.

Problems have also been detected in the Mi-Mover application to transfer data. It has been revealed that it is capable of sending confidential user data (bank information or passwords) or logging in without requiring a password.

The report of these experts points out more security flaws in MIUI. Although these two are the most serious that have been found in his analysis. From Xiaomi they affirm that they totally disagree with the analysis and report made by eScan and it does not seem that they are working on a solution either. So without a doubt, in case this report is true, it can be a great risk for users.