Malicious app required to make “Pixnapping” attack work requires no permissions.
  • FreedomAdvocateEnglish
    22·
    2 months 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.

    • ReginaPhalange@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      2 months ago

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

      • FreedomAdvocateEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

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

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

        • NaibofTabr@infosec.pubEnglish
          3·
          2 months 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.