Android hijacking bug allows attackers to install password stealers
Android hijacking bug allows attackers to install password stealers
Half of Android devices may be vulnerable to surreptitious install exploits.Roughly half of all Android handsets are vulnerable to a newly discovered hack that in some cases allows attackers to surreptitiously modify or replace seemingly benign apps with malicious ones that steal passwords and other sensitive data.
The “Android installer hijacking” vulnerability, as it has been dubbed by…