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Researchers create "clickjack rootkit" for Android that hijacks apps
- TazeTSchnitzel 14y agoSo essentially it modifies a shortcut (well, adds one, deletes another)? It's funny, you don't even need permissions to do this on Windows.
- arpit 14y agoThere seems to be an article like this every month or so that makes it appear that the Android OS is full of security holes and its trivial to trick/phish users. But is there any actual reported widespread case? For how big the Android user base is, why is there nothing at the scale of the Windows viruses of yesteryear.
- gala8y 14y agoBut is there any actual reported widespread case? cf http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4197340 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4197340 It may turn out that we are getting there.