Android / Security

Mitigating Android Social Engineering Attacks

How to patch the user vulnerability if Android can’t do it?

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Series outline:

• Part 1: A Short History of Mobile Malware
• Part 2: The Layers of the Android Security Model
• Part 3: Mitigating Android Social Engineering Attacks (you are here)

In the first part of the series, we have identified that the user is the primary vulnerability exploited by attackers.

Subsequently, in the second part, we have seen the security measures enforced by Android at the OS level and the application level. This enabled us to better understand why the operating system itself is a harder target than the user.

However, so far, we have explored only the problem.

But what is the solution?

We will take up where we left off in the last part — user security.

User Security

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We have already seen the multitude of mechanisms enforced by Android to ensure…