MediaProjection vulnerability leaves 77 percent of Android phones open to screen and audio recording attacks

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By Mark Wycislik-WilsonNov 20, 2017, 5:48 am351 pts
More than three quarters of Android phones are vulnerable to screen and audio recording by attackers. By exploiting the MediaProjection service, an attacker can easily trick a user into granting the relevant rights to a malicious app. Although the vulnerability has been fixed in Android 8 Oreo, users running…

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