A banking malware sample led researchers to an Android bug that can loop-crash phones

T2Covered by 1 source · first reported by Help Net Security at 05 Nov, 09:00 UTC

Bitdefender Labs researchers built an Android app that contains no executable code and requests no permissions, and installing it leaves a Pixel 10 in a crash loop that can take a factory reset to clear. The flaw, which Bitdefender calls GhostMap, comes from how Android reads the ZIP structure…