The app is called SHAREit by Smart Media 4U, and it is designed to make transferring photos, videos, music, and other things a snap through peer-to-peer file sharing.

ShareIt app: Cyber security company Trend Micro has said that the ShareIt Android app, which has over 100 crore downloads on the Google Play Store, has several security flaws.

With more than a billion downloads on Google's Play Store, SHAREit is one of the most popular file sharing apps on Android. Over the years, the app has bloated into becoming a content platform ...

Attackers can exploit SHAREit permissions to execute malicious code through vulnerabilities that remain unpatched three months after app makers were informed.

The security bugs impact the company's SHAREit Android app, an application that downloaded more than 1 billion times, according to Google Play Store statistics.

Security bugs left unpatched in Android app with one billion downloads The vulnerabilities impact SHAREit, an app used for sharing files between users and their devices.

Back when Google Play first paved the way for peer-to-peer app and game sharing, SHAREit was one of the first applications to utilize the feature.

A bug in Android file sharing app SHAREit which has been downloaded over 1 billion times in Google Play Store contains several unpatched vulnerabilities that can be abused by hackers to leak ...

ShareIt, in particular, was found to have many flaws that can easily be exploited to steal your data or install unwanted apps on your Android device.

I still dont understand how android doesnt just have a built in, general purpose, local file sharing. I remember my friends with macs doing this in what, 2011 without any special additional apps?