Amazon’s Exclusive Prime Moto G5 Plus Has A Security Flaw
Amazon’s Prime Exclusive Moto G5 Plus has a security flaw baked into a lockscreen ad making it easier than one would think to bypass the lockscreen and get into the phone. The process is actually rather simple which perhaps makes the whole thing more alarming. According to users who have the Prime Exclusive Moto G5 Plus as well as the Prime Exclusive Moto G5, the process starts by trying to unlock the phone with the fingerprint sensor, and once the sensor doesn’t recognize the fingerprint, you can press the power button and then tap on the button on-screen that says view lockscreen ad, which leads to the phone granting access to the user and the lock being bypassed. In the video below, you can see the bypass in action which takes less than a few seconds to go through the entire process. Going through the steps above, once the “view ad” button is tapped, it unlocks and goes straight to Amazon to view the product that was being advertised, at whi...