GhostMap flaw can trap Android phones in a persistent boot loop
A vulnerability that Bitdefender calls GhostMap can force Android devices into a continuous boot loop with a specially crafted app. The app needs no permissions and only has to be installed on the device. GhostMap and the malformed APK Romanian cybersecurity company Bitdefender traced the flaw while examining an Android banking trojan that kept crashing its emulators when it tried to read an application resource. The company showed that a…