ES File Explorer is a free-to-use file manager for Android. It is a very popular application and comes with a lot of features apart from simple file management. And one of these features is the ...

Update: As if the story below wasn't bad enough, later the same day I suddenly got a persistent popup for a "Charging Screensaver" that also, miraculously, promised to increase charging time by 20% ...

A hidden web server always running in the background was found by security researcher Robert Baptiste in ES File Explorer, an Android file manager with over 100,000,000 installs displayed on the ...

Update, January 18, 2019 (01:15 PM ET): Yesterday, we received word from ES App Group, the creators of ES File Explorer. The company informed us that the HTTP vulnerability as described in the article ...

Security Researcher Elliot Alderson announced the discovery of a new vulnerability in the ES File Explorer for Android. It was reported that the vulnerability can expose files and information on the ...

ES File Explorer has been on Android since time immemorial, but it has been getting a little bloated since being acquired a while back. The most recent update might be the last straw for many users.