Riley Hassell and Shane Macaulay failed to present their research at the Black Hat Security Briefings. They claim to have found dozens of vulnerabilities in Android applications using an automated analysis tool. The problems are not in Google’s software, Hassell says, but Google should seek ways to increase the security of third-party applications, he says. The problem is known as activity reuse, where one application can exploit a vulnerability in another application to use that program’s elevated permissions. For example, Skype could be exploited by other programs to make calls without notifying the user.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2129335/mia-talk-was-to-focus-on-android-developer-mistakes.html