Comment on Hackers can steal 2FA codes and private messages from Android phones

• krooklochurm@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Man in the middle an app download or find some kind of exploit to inject the code from a website, ta da.

  I mean, obviously there’s more to it than this but.

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  • NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Hmm, yes that can happen, but can it happen if you’re downloading directly from the Play store?

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    • krooklochurm@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      There are reports all the time of play store apps containing malware.

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      • NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’m sure there are apps that have malware built in yes, but I mean the MITM approach you were describing.

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    • reksas@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      first you download something and it has nothing malicious, then you update it later and then it has something.

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• NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  So they’re using the same programs that the three letter agencies of the world have been using to crack phones since before touchscreens existed?

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  • NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This article doesn’t really address that. I don’t think there’s any indication that this particular vulnerability is related to nation-state hacking.

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• FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  So it could be hiding in, what would you call them…….malicious apps?

  The relevant code isn’t going to be in a non malicious app.

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  • ReginaPhalange@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Listen Mr Zuckerberg, we can improve our ad revenue immensely if we can do this one little trick to Facebook’s code…

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  • NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Um, ok, and how would you know the difference?

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    • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Because if it’s doing this it’s a malicious app….

      Google also said they’ve found zero apps doing this.

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      • NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Because if it’s doing this it’s a malicious app….

        OK, how would you know?

        Google also said they’ve found zero apps doing this.

        So what? There are millions of apps on the Play store, they aren’t all being reviewed with this level of scrutiny. This means basically nothing.

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