26 votes

Epic's first Fortnite Installer allowed hackers to download and install anything on your Android phone silently

3 comments

  1. Rocket_Man
    Link
    This is all very strange. While it's great Google found the exploit and told epic it seems like an awfully bad look for Android IMO. Why can apps hijack other apps requests? This story paints a...

    This is all very strange. While it's great Google found the exploit and told epic it seems like an awfully bad look for Android IMO. Why can apps hijack other apps requests? This story paints a picture where Android has no security and all the security has been offloaded to Google. Which seems like a bad way to do things.

    8 votes
  2. sublime_aenima
    Link
    I recently started playing this game with my kids, simple enough for me and entertaining for them. If I had to guess, the average age is 12-16 which is a pretty dangerous age to allow hackers around.

    I recently started playing this game with my kids, simple enough for me and entertaining for them. If I had to guess, the average age is 12-16 which is a pretty dangerous age to allow hackers around.

    5 votes
  3. Fin
    Link
    Thanks for the heads up, my nephew loves the game and has an android.

    Thanks for the heads up, my nephew loves the game and has an android.

    4 votes