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by scarface74 2217 days ago
So I’m going to both trust an app that is not sandboxed on my phone and trust it to update itself without my consent?
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All apps are sandboxed in Android... even the ones installed externally.
Obviously not well enough considering what happened with Fortnite....
What happened to Fortnite?
> For the attack to work, it sounds like you would have already needed to have a piece of malware on your phone, ready and waiting to strike. But not a particularly sophisticated one. After you ask the Fortnite Launcher to download Fortnite, Google claims that any app with the WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission would have been able to sneakily replace the real Fortnite app with a fake one after security checks were already complete. It's known as a "man-in-the-disk" attack.