A novel Android attack vector from a piece of malware tracked as Snowblind is abusing a security feature to bypass existing anti-tampering protections in apps that handle sensitive user data.

Mobile app security provider Promon has uncovered a never-before-seen Android banking malware. Dubbed Snowblind, it uses a novel technique to exploit Android OS functionalities and compromise banking ...

Hackers from Southeast Asia have turned Android's own best application security mechanism against itself, severing the link between kernel and application in order to perform any kind of tampering ...