New Dangerous Android Permission Security Flaw leads to Ransomware and Banking Malware Attacks

A new Android vulnerability discovered in Android’s security Mechanism which leads to several android permission based attacks during run-time including ransomware, banking malware and adware.

According to the Google Policy  gives extensive permissions to apps installed directly from Google Play,this flow  consists of several groups of permissions, with permissions considered as “dangerous” granted only during run-time which introduced for Android version 6.0.0, “Marshmallow”

According to Check Point Researchers ,it means first time an app tries to access a “dangerous” resource, the user is required to approve the necessary permission.

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