Multimedia Hack Affecting 95 Percent of Android Phones
IF You Use an Android phone; Beware, Your Android smartphones Can BE hacked by Just A malformed text message.
Security Researchers Have found That 95% of Android Devices Running version 2.2 to 5.1 of operating System, Which Includes Lollipop and KitKat, are Vulnerable to Security A bug, affecting more Than 950 Million Android smartphones and Tablets.
Almost all Android smart devices available today are open to attack that could allow hackers to access the vulnerable device without the owners being aware of it, according to Joshua Drake, vice president of platform research and exploitation at security firm Zimperium.
The vulnerability resides in Actually A Core Android component called " Stagefright , "A Multimedia playback Library Used by Android to Process, Record and Play Multimedia Files such as PDFs.
A Text Message Received ... Your Is your phone hacked
Drake has developed and published a scary exploit that uses a specially crafted text message using the multimedia message (MMS) format.
How it Works
All A hacker Needs Is The phone Number of The Victim's Android device. The hacker Could Then sends message The Malicious That Will surreptitiously execute Malicious code on The Vulnerable device with No end user action, No Indication, nothing Required.
