New Android tricks for modern malware licks Symantec engineer Dinesh Venkatesan says malware writers have one up on Google with the pillaging of a keystone trick that permits attacks on Android Marshmallow. The method was extracted from white hat proof-of-concept works published initially to show how malware could extract credentials from Android apps. It allows …
Even the name and shame approach can't catch 0-days like these.
This is why I'm sticking to Nexus devices and iOS. At least you get the security patches hot of the press and not after a phone maker tweaks them.
The mobile networks even get inexplicably in the middle of it in some cases. I remember having to wait a long time for updates on 3 Ireland HTC phones. It doesn't even make sense. What exactly do 3 Ireland have customised on those phones? A boot logo and useless bloatware nobody uses?!
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