An Israeli company saw what a hacker could do with the devices
Northbit, a company of Israeli software, claims to have discovered a security flaw which could put at risk 275 million Android devices .
the company said it had hired an expert team in software research from Israeli intelligence in order to achieve an advantage over its competitors. Through this team they found “metaphore” failure Stagefright , the mediaserver and multimedia library of Android, which allow a hacker to control the phone remotely.
All It begins when the Android device user clicks on an infected link that directs you to a website. At that time the virus begins to settle on the phone taking advantage of the ASLR (address space layout randomization) that is a process memory protection that can last from seconds to 2 minutes.
According to the founder of Northbit, Gil Dabah, also known as Arkon, the process could be carried out at a production level, which means that anyone, including government agencies, could use .
devices Android 2.2, 4.0, 5.0 and 5.1, are the most susceptible to attack , as well as the Nexus 5, HTC One, LG G3 and Samsung S5, same that were hacked by Northbit.
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