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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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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.

Why not just send the links. This would tip off Airbnb to patch it.

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

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post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

But if so, why not try to camouflage it as something more generic, to try to avoid notifying Airbnb? I am tech savvy enough and have marketing notifications turned off, but I would assume that they are simply not honouring the setting somehow if I received an ad for Airbnb.

Now Airbnb knows to change their key or something if possible, and I'll be very suspicious of any notifications from any app in the future, especially Airbnb.

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