More than 900 million Android terminals affected by … – Hipertextual

A problem with the privileges allows any attacker to gain control of a terminal Android.

Issues Android a few months after the release of the next major update of the operating system. And is that more than 900 million Android handsets equipped with chips Qualcomm are victims of a security flaw that could allow an hacker to take complete control of the affected device.

apparently, the main problem lies in the scale of system privileges that may allow an attacker to take possession above the main level of safety , Quadrooter, as researchers say security company Check Point . Although this vulnerability was known by these researchers, has been in the conference Defcon in explained in detail the depth of the same.

In this sense, all you have to do an attacker to get complete control of an affected device would install a malicious application, but unlike other types of malware, not need in any case special permissions , which could be installed from any source applications.

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this way, an attacker could gain access to the root and by extension, to all Android device, including user data and, above all, remote access to hardware, as camera and microphone . And this vulnerability also affects terminals high and recent range as the Nexus 5X and 6P or S7 Samsung.

have to wait so that Google and manufacturers solve this problem in the coming months, but by the number of active terminals without support, it will be very difficult for all the terminals they become invulnerable.

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