The same app, now a contact-wiper — APK repackaging on Apple Silicon

The same app, now a contact-wiper: an APK repackaging attack on Apple Silicon

Take a trusted Android app, inject a payload, and re-sign it so it still installs as legitimate — then do the whole thing on an M-series Mac instead of the prescribed Ubuntu VM, where four things break that no tutorial warns you about.

June 12, 2026 · 7 min · Kartik Sankhla