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Cybersecurity

More Android apps from dangerous Ztorg family sneak into Google Play

June 21, 2017

Via: ArsTechnica

For the second time this month, Google has removed Android apps from its Google Play marketplace. Google did so after a security researcher found the apps contained code that laid the groundwork for attackers to take administrative “root” control of […]


Cybersecurity

Using Rowhammer bitflips to root Android phones is now a thing

October 24, 2016

Via: ArsTechnica

Researchers have devised an attack that gains unfettered “root” access to a large number of Android phones, exploiting a relatively new type of bug that allows adversaries to manipulate data stored in memory chips. The breakthrough has the potential to […]