US EditionThe Tap Trap: Android Security Vulnerability Discovered
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Hackers attack Android smartphones with a hidden app to steal user data. A team of Vienna University of Technology has revealed the trick and warned developers.
The tap trap: Android security vulnerability discovered
What we see on our mobile phone screens is not always what we are actually operating. This has been demonstrated by a research team at TU Wien (Vienna, Austria), consisting of Philipp Beer, Sebastian Roth, Marco Squarcina, and Martina Lindorfer.
The tech giant's artificial intelligence-based system spotted the vulnerability before criminals could exploit it.
Fieser Hack: Many Android apps are vulnerable to a particularly perfidious hacking trick – with the help of an "invisible" app. This puts itself unrecognized in the foreground and can then use our clicks for malicious purposes, as IT researchers have discovered. Thus, this TapTrap can read out data called hacking, catch our consent or even delete data. Meaning: As a user, this attack is hardly recognizable – only when it is too late. Smartphones…
Using a fraudulent "invisible" app, other apps can be started on your mobile phone, such as the banking app. Researchers at the Vienna University of Technology discovered this – and informed the Android security team.
Austrian researchers present the attack called "TapTrap" at the conference in the USA.
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