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A handful of app distributors are putting hundreds of millions of Android users at risk by bundling powerful root exploits with their wares, computer scientists have found. The researchers presented a paper on Thursday that shows how the exploits—which legitimate developers openly use to give Android phones added functionality—can be easily reverse-engineered and surreptitiously incorporated into malicious apps that bypass crucial Android security measures.
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