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You may know—and be on the lookout for—malware hiding in programs that act legitimate, but aren't. But what happens when apps that are legitimate are unwittingly taken over by malicious users, intent on hijacking their programs? That's exactly what happened to a group of apps on Android: Microsoft first alerted the world to the issue, called "Dirty Stream," which is a vulnerability that allows malicious apps to take over legitimate ones. Dirty Stream relies on a flaw in ContentProvider, the system that allows different apps to share the same data set. Without it, apps wouldn't be able to communicate with each other or use the same data, reducing functionality and convenience.Bad actors focu

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