Care! Android code that exploits the flaw was made public – Pplware

Stagefright was hitherto one of the greatest and most serious problems Android. Its importance is so high that many brands have changed their plans to update releases.

But the Stagefright, which had its stored code since it was discovered, has now been made public, as usual happen in these situations. The problem for many Android users can now be started.

The Stagefright is a simple problem, but with a very high impact, affecting nearly 95% of Android mobile devices that are on the market.

With a simple text message possible for an attacker to take control of a smartphone, stealing sensitive information from the user and accessing all areas of this.

Just the attacker know the phone number you want to access and send a MMS or other text message to that even without the message is opened, the smartphone is compromised.

This discovery was made by a security company, Zimperium, who quickly announced to the world, but not before having contacted Google and major manufacturers of Android smartphones.

The code that allows exploit the flaw has always been off the look of potential stakeholders, ensuring the safety of users and allowing time for manufacturers and Google to be created by and cast them updates to treat the problem.

But the Zimperium solved now, and spent several weeks on the launch of the problem publicly and several months since warned Google, available to all code that can be used to explore the Stagefright.

With the release of this code becomes possible for anyone to explore the Stagefright and get user data, and this is where you can start a headache for many.

Both Google as Samsung and Motorola have created new security updates, which solved the Stagefright, but again were limited to some equipment and only some versions of Android.

To check whether your version of Android is exposed to Stagefright can use the Zimperium that tool purposefully, the stagefright detector.

The stagefright the problem is aggravating to be present in almost all versions of Android and to be complicated or even impossible to update them with the security fixes.

With a simple message the Stagefright, which either need to be open, open access to files and information from Android, giving full access to user information or microphone or camera.

It’s a simple way to access a very serious problem that now arrived in the form of code that can exploit.