Researchers Hack Android Apps With Up TO 92 Percent Success Rate, Windows And iOS Also May Be Vulnerable

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A flaw in the design of shared smartphone memory allows researchers to hack into Android apps with a success rate of up to 92 percent. The researchers claim the flaw could be used on Windows and iOS apps, too.

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[therogerwilco]

This can't be done on Windows Phone because of the way shared memory works.

 

[pnosko]

>"By design, Android allows apps to be preempted or hijacked."

A little more detail here would be much appreciated.

>According to them, this flaw could also theoretically affect other operating systems such as Windows and iOS as well, but they haven’t attempted hacks on those systems yet.

Are we reading news with facts or discussing theory?

 

[pnosko]

duplicate

 

[Mintas Lanxor]

Anyone who uses the Internet for vital financial transactions or deposits their vital personal info on it deserves their possible misfortune caused by hacking.

 

[pnosko]

Anyone who uses the Internet for vital financial transactions or deposits their vital personal info on it deserves their possible misfortune caused by hacking.

And if you are carrying your cash deposit to your local bank branch and get robbed enroute, you deserve that possible misfortune too, right?

 

[moekal]

"The way they accomplish this is by having the user install a malware-infected app"

So the 92% rate mention is useless because it doesn't mean anything in terms of the general android population. Also, if a user install's your malware, and you can only retrieve 92% of them, that's funny.

"According to them, this flaw could also theoretically affect other operating systems such as Windows and iOS as well, but they haven’t attempted hacks on those systems yet."

a.k.a. "Anything's possible..."

Except for the fact that there is no "shared memory" in iOS apps, all apps are sandboxed. And any apps running malicious code that tries to "hack" its's way out of its memory block will be rejected in a second from app store approval. No side loading apps (unless jailbroken), no issue here.


Go home Tom Hardware, your drunk and pleading for clicks with a catchy title.

 

[edwd2]

malware infected apks

 

[genz]

"The way they accomplish this is by having the user install a malware-infected app"

So the 92% rate mention is useless because it doesn't mean anything in terms of the general android population. Also, if a user install's your malware, and you can only retrieve 92% of them, that's funny.

"According to them, this flaw could also theoretically affect other operating systems such as Windows and iOS as well, but they haven’t attempted hacks on those systems yet."

a.k.a. "Anything's possible..."

Except for the fact that there is no "shared memory" in iOS apps, all apps are sandboxed. And any apps running malicious code that tries to "hack" its's way out of its memory block will be rejected in a second from app store approval. No side loading apps (unless jailbroken), no issue here.


Go home Tom Hardware, your drunk and pleading for clicks with a catchy title.

Android is sandboxed too

 

[Markla]

As far as I understand, this is more of a trojan than a true exploit, the malicious app sits in the background monitoring system or kernel memory usage and once it sees a pattern, assumes the system to be executing one of the apps mentioned, and pops up its own version of the UI and fools the user into keying in credentials

 

[Daniel Coca]

BlackBerry for the win; the phoenix will rise from the fire. Security, security....