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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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otterpond wrote: post #17

got it too. made me open the app. brilliant marketing campaign

Haha I considered this as a possibility for why it was sent... I don't ever open their app otherwise, I only ever installed it to receive messages from a host on a trip.

At the very least they might have wanted to understand a baseline for how many people will open a notification just to dig into the app and try to disable future notifications, regardless of how annoying the text in the notification was.

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

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SoeMyzlack wrote: post #34
axby wrote: 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.

Oh could the attacker get information about whether or not I opened the app? Is the same key used to send notifications and access metrics that Firebase collects?
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