Researchers discovered various unusual activities and vulnerabilities in UC Browser for the Android platform and it also violating the Google Play policies and exposing more than 500 million users to Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attacks. UC Browser is the most popular browser in the Android platform with more than 500 million downloads from the Google Play Store. And UC Browser Mini also has 100 million+ downloads from the Google Play Store alone. So, More than 600 million users of the popular UC Browser and UC Browser Mini Android apps have been vulnerable to Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attacks . Recent research from Zscaler reveals that the UC Browser and UC Browser Mini apps unusually made a request over an unsecured channel (HTTP over HTTPS) to download an additional Android Package Kit (APK) from the third-party source onto the Android user's devices. The researchers noticed that the UC Browser and UC Browser Mini app were sending requests to download an a
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