Next version of Android might introduce new security risks for online banking, 2FA, and more

Andreas Gutmann

Google is preparing new functionality for Android that will allow apps to retrieve and auto-fill security codes from SMS. Last year Apple introduced a similar feature to iOS and macOS, for which we discovered security risks for online banking, two-factor authentication, and other services. Will Google come up with a better design? In this post, we analyse what we know about this feature so far.

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Next version of Android might introduce new security risks for online banking, 2FA, and more