Sounds nasty but, I am not sure how easy it is to exploit.
According to the article:-
We believe that this vulnerability may be used by cybercriminals to do some substantial damage on Android smartphones and tablets, which include 'bricking' a device, or rendering it unusable.
"An even worse case is when the malware is written to start automatically upon device startup," they said. "Doing so will trap the device in a rebooting loop, rendering it useless."
The only method to recover from such an attack would be to perform a factory reset from the bootloader options, but this implies deleting all user data and preferences stored on the device including contacts, photos and files, the Trend Micro researchers said.
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