Man in the Disk

Recently, at DEFCON 2018, researchers at Check Point announced a new kind of attack made possible by the way many Android apps are implemented. In summary, developers use the shared external storage space in an unsafe manner, by not taking into consideration that other apps also have read and write access to the same space. A malicious app can modify data used by another app, as a vector for compromising that app, causing it to be compromised or crash. [Read More]