bl A malicious Android application spotted by FireEye – security vendor, that could modify the icons of other applications so that when they’re launched, they send victims to a phishing website. Google has issued a patch for that. The user give application permissions thought to have no malicious possibilities. Android users aren’t warned about granting those permissions when they install an application, FireEye wrote. But “using these normal permissions, allow malicious application to modify configuration settings of Android’s Launcher, including that of icons. FireEye developed a proof-of-concept attack using Google’s Nexus 7 tablet running Android version 4.2.2 to show icons …continue reading
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