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Amber Bouman

This new Android attack could trick you into compromising your own phone — everything you need to know

A person looking at a phone with a digital warning sign over it.

Tapping the wrong part of the screen on one of the best Android phones could leave you and your device completely vulnerable to hackers.

A team of security researchers at TU Wien and the University of Bayreuth have published a paper detailing their new TapTrap attack technique. Surprisingly, it's capable of bypassing Android’s permission system in order to access sensitive information and deceive users into clicking buttons that will perform malicious actions.

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