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Peeking into Your App without Actually Seeing It: UI State Inference and Novel Android Attacks

Qi Alfred Chen,Zhiyun Qian,Z. Morley Mao

2014 · DBLP: conf/uss/ChenQM14
USENIX Security Symposium · 230 Citations

TLDR

It is reported that on the Android system (and likely other OSes), a weaker form of GUI confidentiality can be breached in the form of UI state by a background app without requiring any permissions, leading to a class of attacks which are named UI state inference attack.