Security News

Flawed Android backup mechanism can lead to injected malicious apps (Help Net Security)
2015-07-13 12:26

A flaw (CVE-2014-7952) in Android's backup/restore mechanism can be exploited by knowledgeable developers to "respawn" malicious apps on phones, and make them gain top-level access and potentially dan...

Bug in Android ADB Backup System Can Allow Injection of Malicious Apps (Threatpost)
2015-07-09 13:16

There’s a severe vulnerability in the way that all versions of Android handle the restoration of backups that can allow an attacker to inject a malicious APK file into the backup archive. The bug...