Why You Should Never Use This ‘Very Dangerous’ Setting On Your Phone

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Why you suddenly need to stop this ‘very dangerous’ setting on your phone

“It's relatively easy to hijack a notification's predefined actions,” Hazum warns, “if the app has the Notification Listener permission. Not just WhatsApp, but all apps. In this case, the actor hijacked notifications from WhatsApp, responding to messages with a link to a malicious APK, fake news, phishing campaigns, and so much more.”

This “abuse of a dangerous mechanism,” Hazum says, “this NotificationListener service, which allows an app access to all notifications and predefined actions on them,” is very likely to be repeated. As ever, now the vulnerability is in the public domain, and given the relative ease by which it can be exploited, it’s a very real threat.

 

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