New Brokewell malware takes over Android devices, steals data
New Brokewell malware takes over Android devices, steals data
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New Brokewell malware takes over Android devices, steals data
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New Brokewell malware takes over Android devices, steals data
New Brokewell malware takes over Android devices, steals data
Why are articles about mobile malware or hack tools always written vaguely enough to suggest they're 0-click? What valuse does an article have if it doesn't list the steps to get infected or uninfected?
Not sure what you are talking about. Paragraph 1 has
and the article makes it pretty clear after that that the user is tricked into installing the fake apk.
That's an incredibly vague statement that'd lead most people to think they're fucked if they so much as open a site that says to update chrome.
Unless it's using some unmentioned exploit, the user in question needs to:
Unless the app is circumventing the above steps, much more than just a "fake Google Chrome update that is shown while using the web browser." is needed to get infected. Not specifying if this is just an ordinary app with malicious intentions or if it actually uses exploits to achieve what normally can't be is misleading.