An anonymous French researcher has flagged serious security concerns in Baba Ramdev’s messaging application Kimbho, which the yoga guru has pitched as a counter to Whatsapp.
A day after the app went live, the ‘security expert’, who goes by the Twitter name Elliot Alderson, claimed he could access the messages of all Kimbho app users, calling it a “security disaster.”
Alderson had previously flagged chinks in some top government apps, including Aadhaar. “This (Kimbho) is a joke… If it is not clear, for the moment don’t install this app,” Alderson said in a tweet. The app is not available on the Google Play Store but is available on iOS. Alderson claimed that the app was a copy of a similar application called ‘Bolo’.
“The description and the screenshots in the app stores are the same. Moreover, the Kimbho app is making request to bolomessenger[.]com,” he tweeted.
