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Lockscreen ad-disabling APK for Amazon Prime Exclusive phones is available now

Taylor Kerns2018/02/10
1:32pm PSTFeb 10, 2018

Lockscreen ad-disabling APK for Amazon Prime Exclusive phones is available now

Update
This article has been updated to correct the mention of the lockscreen bypass previously reported on, which wasn't a security flaw but a feature that has to be manually enabled. Amazon

Amazon announced earlier this week that lockscreen ads won't be present on newly-purchased Prime Exclusive devices and an update is rolling out to the Amazon Offers app to disable them on existing handsets. If you don't want to wait, you can sideload that update right now.

[Update: Just on-body detection] Security flaw in Moto G5 Plus Prime Exclusive grants access to phone with the tap of a lockscreen ad

Richard Gao2018/01/24
6:13pm PSTJan 24, 2018

[Update: Just on-body detection] Security flaw in Moto G5 Plus Prime Exclusive grants access to phone with the tap of a lockscreen ad

Update
As some of you have speculated, the issue is due to Smart Lock's on-body detection feature. The uploader of the YouTube video was unable to reproduce the flaw after

Amazon has been running its Prime Exclusive program for some time now. Essentially, the company partners with phone manufacturers to offer noticeably lower prices on devices in exchange for preloaded Amazon apps and advertisements on the lock screen. However, it appears that these lockscreen ads have led to a security flaw on one Prime Exclusive device, the Moto G5 Plus.

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