New ‘ Man-in – the-Disk ‘ Android Vulnerability Affects Via External Storage Devices ByNitish Singh-August 13, 2018.119 Figure 1 Photo Courtesy of Check Point Team Tech Visor Researchers discovered a vulnerability in Android caused by external storage. Using external storage devices such as Sd cards Usb Otg drives will lead to the installation of malicious apps on your Android device. The infections occur as the core protection of Android Sandbox doesn’t work on external storage devices and is limited to memory devices. .120 Figure 2 Image Check Point Security flaw may potentially allow cyber criminals to perform various malicious activities that may result in installing unrequested apps denying service forced file encryption crashes ransomware and more. While some manufacturers provide non-expandable storage a large number of Android users have access to phones and tablets that make most devices vulnerable by offering SD card support. Through default, most applications install on internal storage, but some memory hogging apps and games install a large portion of their data on external partitions. .121 Figure 3 Photo Courtesy of Check Point The developers were contacted after they found the device vulnerabilities in several Android apps. Developers have already released patches to the compromised software, and several unidentified apps are still patched, and their names will be announced once the process is complete. Until the underlying problems Google patches Android app developers need to be vigilant about using external storage for devices. Grip.