Analysis of the communication between colluding applications on modern smartphones
Claudio Marforio, Hubert Ritzdorf, Aurélien Francillon, Srđjan Čapkun · 2012
Modern smartphones that implement permission-based security mechanisms suffer from attacks by colluding applications. Users are not made aware of possible implications of application collusion attacks---quite the contrary---on existing platforms, users are implicitly led to believe that by approving the installation of each application independently, they can limit the damage that an application can cause.