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| Ipquarx:
--- Quote from: Swollow on May 04, 2017, 04:27:54 PM ---how the heck do you 'fix' something like this? --- End quote --- The entire phishing attack relied on the fact that the app that was requesting permissions looked like an official google docs app. It'll be pretty easy to automatically filter out apps that seem to be trying to impersonate official apps by using text and image comparisons. This in effect 'fixes' it. Of course it's not 100% avoidable but it'll prevent the large majority of attacks like this in the future, and since this is one of the first of its kind, it seems like there won't be many more, if any at all. |
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