in order to hack Android, attackers need to know the telephone number of the victim. A new vulnerability in the OS by Google has found a specialist company Zimperium mobile security Joshua Drake. Is she in a component of the Android kernel, which is responsible for working with multimediafiles. But because even a simple MMS may result in action by the malicious code.

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in order to hack Android, attackers need to know the telephone number of the victim. A new vulnerability in the OS by Google has found a specialist company Zimperium mobile security Joshua Drake. Is she in a component of the Android kernel, which is responsible for working with multimediafiles. But because even a simple MMS may result in action by the malicious code.

Users do not even need to run the infected file. The affected component is used to automatically generate thumbnails, extracting metadata of video and audio. Just enough to get the infected file via MMS or copy within the file system. In the first case, the user will not even know how it was hacked his device, because MMS can come at night in silent mode, and the malicious code will remove any mention of the message.

Specialist not only revealed the vulnerability and created patches that cover it. But the problem is that the update Anroid smartphone is very slow, but because 95% of these phones are still in the risk zone. Most will remain vulnerable, because the "hole" affects Android versions from 2.2 and above that will never receive updates.