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A distinct class of Android vulnerability has been unearthed by computer scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. "Cloak and dagger" is a new kind of attack vector affecting Android devices (including the latest version, 7.1.2). "Attacks allow a malicious app to completely control the UI feedback loop and …

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  1. Your alien overlord - fear me

    Report it to Google and watch the inaction rollout across the platforms.

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    Seriously?

    That video needs subtitles. I work in a Physics Department, so I am used to thick Indian & Chinese accests, but the narrator clearly was a horrible choice.

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    1. ldm
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      Re: Seriously?

      The video linked in the article just has a minute of uselessness prepended, the original Georgia Tech video is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgZmWmbQg84

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  3. Graham Cobb Silver badge

    30 year old bug re-emerges on Android

    Wow. I remember when computers started requiring that you press BREAK before they would give a login prompt, because people wrote programs that made it looked like the terminal was waiting for login and captured passwords. I think it was VAX/VMS V2, in the 1980's, which first introduced it (at least to me).

    Microsoft adopted the same strategy with requiring CTRL-ALT-DEL before you could login.

    But someone forgot about this and started writing phone OS's that allow apps that require passwords and you can't use a secure gesture to make sure you are really talking to the right app?

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  4. John Smith 19 Gold badge
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    Should Android be classed as an Advanced Persistant Threat?

    On this basis, probably.

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