A report by Zimperium indicates that there is a vulnerability in Android media files playback system called Stagefright. A text message sent by pirates and received on the phone, allows remote access to all the information contained therein.
The malware is hidden inside a message with a short video. So what is rececionada, the Stagefright prepares the video to be viewed. In this process, malicious code is injected into the system. From this moment, the pirate has access to all the information in the device.
According to NPR, the Zimperium have warned Google in April, when it was discovered the flaw that at the time, yet We had not been exploited by the pirates. The company explains that those who receive the message through Hangouts not have to open it to get infected.
The Zimperium will reveal all the details of this threat, which he calls “the mother of all Android vulnerabilities” in Defcon, the security conference that starts on 6 August in Las Vegas.
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