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Android Overlay and Accessibility Features Leave Millions at Risk

By Tom Spring
 
                                                  
 

University researchers are warning that two features, not flaws, core to Google’s Android mobile operating system can be used together to launch clickjacking attacks to gain control of a target’s phone.

 

The discovery was made by researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology, who call the research Cloak and Dagger. It involves two Android features and permissions called System Alert Window and Bind Accessibility Service.

 

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