Dave Jevans, CTO of Marble Security, describes this and other new mobile threats. “There’s a whole set of things which were designed for enterprise control that can easily be done by any attacker on any website,” he says. “They use spear phishing and social engineering techniques to trick mobile users into giving up control of their own device profile – often in just a couple of easy clicks” He also worked in the advanced technology group at Apple and ran an engineering project involving new mobile systems.”]
Source: https://www.careersinfosecurity.com/facts-about-hostile-profile-takeover-a-6167