Factory Reset Protection Bypass Found for Nexus Devices With May Security Update

An Android security researcher has figured out how to bypass the factory reset protection (FRP) in the most recent Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow manufacture complete with the most recent May Android Security Update.

While it's a convoluted procedure, the method point by point by RootJunky clearly figures out how to bypass the factory reset protection framework on the Huawei-made Nexus 6P. The researcher has definite the bypass, implied particularly for Nexus gadgets, in a YouTube video seen later in the article.

Root Junky clarifies that when Nexus clients (or hoodlums) have reset their smartphones, they can avoid the FRP check by disconnecting the Wi-Fi they're right now associated with. When they have done as such, they can then make a Google account by utilizing an extraordinary apk record and the preloaded Chrome program. After they have marked into the new account, and the telephone adjusts to the account, they can then reset the cell phone again - however this time, they know the secret word to the account the cell phone is associated with, and will have full access to the cell phone.

To review, Google initially presented Factory Reset Protection, otherwise called Device Protection, with Android 5.1 Lollipop. The framework is intended to guarantee that if an Android gadget has been stolen, the cheat can't increase full access to the gadget even after factory resetting it.

The researcher says he presented this bypass, which he says deals with Nexus gadgets with more seasoned security patches too, to Google alongside other benefit escalation methods as security dangers. Google however did not recognize the bypass to be a genuine security hazard. Obviously, while the method is unpredictable, it is not all that intricate that decided cell phone cheats can't utilize it to reset a substantial number of stolen devices.