Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Oh! now we have "Malicious" text messages and that can affect 950 million Android phones.


One thing common these days whether it is about data breach or jeeps or devices is that they affect millions (users,devices, automobiles)


From the Article

The vulnerability resides in "Stagefright," an Android code library that processes several widely used media formats. The most serious exploit scenario is the use of a specially modified text message using the multimedia message (MMS) format. 

All an attacker needs is the phone number of the vulnerable Android phone. From there, the malicious message will surreptitiously execute malicious code on the vulnerable device with no action required by the end user and no indication that anything is amiss

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