A banking malware sample led researchers to an Android bug that can loop-crash phones

Bit­de­fen­der Labs re­sear­chers built an An­dro­id app that con­tains no execu­ta­ble code and re­quests no per­mis­sions, and ins­ta­lling it lea­ves a Pixel 10 in a crash loop that can take a fac­tory reset to clear. The flaw, which Bit­de­fen­der calls Ghost­Map, comes from how An­dro­id reads the ZIP struc­tu­re in­si­de an APK. The app does not need to be ope­ned. The team re­pro­du­ced the loop on a Pixel 10 run­ning An­dro­id 17 with the Au­gust … More → The post A ban­king malwa­re sam­ple led re­sear­chers to an An­dro­id bug that can loop-crash pho­nes ap­pea­red first on Help Net Se­cu­rity .