Side-Effects of Permissions Requested by Mobile Banking on Android Platform
Latifa Er-Rajy, El Kiram My Ahemed, Mohamed El Ghazouani · 2017
No one among us can deny that Android has become in the last years one of the most popular mobile operating systems worldwide, as the price of this popularity, Android becomes the favorite destination of hackers and the main target of various attacks, which takes advantage of the users' ignorance. Nowadays, Android security has become a big problem due to the free app provided and features that make it very easy for anyone to develop it. Among the applications installed under Android we found M-Banking applications that are of course infected by the security problems that surround Android applications in all the coasts and we mention here especially the permissions requested when installing an M-Banking application that had in most cases no relation with their features or services provided. In this paper, we investigated the danger of the permissions requested by mobile banking applications, their effects on sensitive user data and that their relationship with the attack called "Man in the middle" and its different forms and we took Morocco as a case of study.