“Almost half of all Android OS devices vulnerable to ‘Android Installer Hijacking’”

Google’s Android Operating systems are of recently vulnerable to hackers. Palo Alto says that the attack can achieve, “full access to a compromised device, including usernames, passwords, and sensitive data,”. This is a high priority issue that they are working on fixing at the moment. Xu explains it in simple terms as an attack that “allows an attacker to modify or replace a seemingly benign Android app with malware, without user knowledge.” Google says that roughly 50% of Android phones are vulnerable to the attack.