Wednesday, July 17, 2019

Spearphone Attack - New Attack Lets Android Apps Capture Loudspeaker Data Without Any Permission


A separate team of cybersecurity researchers has successfully demonstrated a new side-channel attack that could allow malicious apps to eavesdrop on the voice coming out of your smartphone's loudspeakers without requiring any device permission.

Dubbed Spearphone, the newly demonstrated attack takes advantage of a hardware-based motion sensor, called an accelerometer, which comes built into most Android devices and can be unrestrictedly accessed by any app installed on a device even with zero permissions.


https://thehackernews.com/2019/07/android-side-channel-attacks.html

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