A bug discovered in the Android operating system may have left about 1 billion phones vulnerable to hacker attacks, researchers say.
system failure could be exploited every time someone sent a message of photo or video to a smartphone.
Google said it fixed the problem, but that millions of devices need to upgrade your software.
The failure, the researchers said, was “extremely dangerous.”
It allowed hackers to send malicious code within a multimedia message that could access a service within the Android called Stagefright
After the Stagefright be activated. – even without the action of the cell owner in this sense – other applications or device data could be accessed by malicious code
“These vulnerabilities. are extremely dangerous because it does not need any victim of action to be explored, “wrote the researchers, the American company that specializes in Zimpherium security.
For them, this is the most serious ever recorded Android vulnerability and affected 950 million handsets
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The researchers will reveal more details about this flaw in Android at a security conference in Las Vegas next week.
James Lyne, director of global research at security company Sophos, said the vulnerability affects a “wide range” of phones that use Android from version 2.2.
“In some devices, this vulnerability meant that responsible for the attack could access all kinds of content on the device or access features such as the camera,” he said.
The Zimpherium, in turn, notified Google, which then produced an update to fix the problem.
However, millions of devices are still without this update as manufacturers and mobile operators need to distribute these updates and users can manually reject updates
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“This vulnerability has been identified in a laboratory setting (using) devices with Android more old and, to our knowledge, no one has been affected, “Google said in a statement
The company said it will provide protection mechanisms in open source soon
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