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Google Pixel phones sold with security vulnerability, report finds
The hidden app was inactive by default.
After launching a joint investigation, iVerify, Palantir, and Trail of Bits discovered a hidden Android software package — Showcase.apk — across Google Pixel devices. “This was very deleterious of trust, to have third-party, unvetted insecure software on it,” Dane Stuckey, Palantir’s chief information security officer, told The Washington Post. “When enabled, Showcase.apk makes the operating system accessible to hackers and ripe for man-in-the-middle attacks, code injection, and spyware,” the report reads.
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