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New Stagefright Bugs Leave More Than 1 Billion Android Users Vulnerable
In July, a security researcher revealed that Android phones could be hacked with a simple text, thanks to a series of bugs in the Android operating system that are now commonly known as Stagefright.
On Thursday, the same security researcher warned that two new Stagefright bugs can allow hackers to break into your phone by tricking you into visiting a website containing a malicious multimedia file, either mp3 or mp4. These two new bugs were also found in the Android media playback engine called Stagefright, just like the first series of bugs disclosed in late July.
Joshua Drake, a researcher at Zimperium zLabs, and also author of the Android’s Hacker Handbook, found that one vulnerability affects “almost every Android device” since the first version of the operating system, released in 2008. The second vulnerability allows hackers to trigger the first, even in newer version of Android, such as 5.0 and above.
It’s likely that 1.4 billion people are affected by these bugs.
.......................................... “Merely previewing the song or video would trigger the issue.”....................................................................
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