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Airbnb on Android just send a “Test, Test dev" push notification message

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Re: Airbnb on Android just send a “Test, Test dev" push notification message

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Same here, three minutes ago. Maybe their Key was leaked as well? I recall a similar issue happened with Firebase: https://cybernews.com/security/exposed-google-keys-leaves-bi...

Interesting, but why would an attacker push a notification like this to so many people? Or did not many people get it? Could I be targeted, along with the others in this thread? If the attacker really intended to send the notification to everyone (or even 10%), wouldn't that very likely get the attention of Airbnb, and then they'd know about the issue and be able to mitigate it? Edit: assuming everyone got it, this s…

Could be a POC for an attacker. If they got the ability to send out custom push notifications in the future they could contain malicious links.
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