Comment by OgsyedIE
7 months ago
Several preinstalled bloatware stores such as Galaxy Store, Moto apps and so forth will default to opt-in to automatically installing 'recommended apps and games' - essentially spyware garbage they get kickbacks from - in the background, plus several flagship phones now come with Temu preinstalled.
The 90% of non technically-savvy Android users are 100% exposed to the OP exploit.
The app needs to be opened by the user for the exploit to work, as seen in the video the researchers published, so the surface attack is big but not that big.
I have definitely opened the wrong app by accident on a smartphone - super easy to tap the wrong thing in a variety of situations (grasping at an awkward angle to snap a photo, pocket taps, etc).
I recommend the program universal android debloater, it will uninstall all those apps
Unless the manufacturer has placed their malware loader into the “nodisable” list.
Motorola are assholes and now prevent you from using pm to disable any of their malware loader apps on most of their phones.