Backdoor Access Discovered In Thousands Of Android Apps
According to a comprehensive academic study published this week, 12.706 Android apps have detected behaviors similar to hidden backdoor access, such as the secret access key, master password, and secret command. Academics from the US and Europe have developed a tool called InputScope to detect these backdoor access in their research. This tool was used to analyze login form fields in more than 150,000 Android apps. To take a closer look, scientists have studied 100,000 apps from the Play Store (based on their number of downloads), the 20,000 most popular apps from third-party stores, and over 30,000 apps installed on Samsung devices....