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Attack Patterns CAPEC-654 — Credential Prompt Impersonation
CAPEC-654

Credential Prompt Impersonation

TLP:CLEAR

Description

Typical severity: High. Likelihood of attack: Medium. An adversary, through a previously installed malicious application, impersonates a credential prompt in an attempt to steal a user's credentials.

Mitigation

The only known mitigation to this attack is to avoid installing the malicious application on the device. However, to impersonate a running task the malicious application does need the GET_TASKS permission to be able to query the task list, and being suspicious of applications with that permission can help.

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Added
Jul 14, 2026
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