Security experts have found a leak in chips used in more than 900 million Android phones.Hackers would therefore easy to access user data, camera and microphone, reports The Financial Times.It involves chips from the American manufacturer Qualcomm, currently used in 80 percent of Android devices. It involves all the popular brands like Samsung, HTC and Sony. Although there are no reports of any victims of cyber criminals keep researchers from Check Point note that that can still happen in the coming months.
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The Checkpoint head of products, mobile and cloud security, Michael Shaulov, stated at the Def Com cyber security conference that hackers could easily access the device’s memory and they could even see the encrypted apps like WhatsApp and read the messages that were sent using it – not to mention that they could read your email, notes and passwords and see and use everything that you have in whichever way they want. Basically, everything that you have will be copied to the hackers via said malicious app.
Thankfully, there is no indication that any of these vulnerabilities have been exploited so far by hackers and let’s hope that it won’t happen until the next Android security patch is released by Google.
According to Google, in order for those vulnerabilities to be exploited by a hacker, he would have to get a user to download a malicious app, but their SafetyNet and Verify Apps protections will help identify, then block and remove those malicious apps.
Now, if people are keen on installing apps from unknown sources or sites then they have to be prepared for the consequences.
Source Time magazine and neurogadget
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The Checkpoint head of products, mobile and cloud security, Michael Shaulov, stated at the Def Com cyber security conference that hackers could easily access the device’s memory and they could even see the encrypted apps like WhatsApp and read the messages that were sent using it – not to mention that they could read your email, notes and passwords and see and use everything that you have in whichever way they want. Basically, everything that you have will be copied to the hackers via said malicious app.
Thankfully, there is no indication that any of these vulnerabilities have been exploited so far by hackers and let’s hope that it won’t happen until the next Android security patch is released by Google.
According to Google, in order for those vulnerabilities to be exploited by a hacker, he would have to get a user to download a malicious app, but their SafetyNet and Verify Apps protections will help identify, then block and remove those malicious apps.
Now, if people are keen on installing apps from unknown sources or sites then they have to be prepared for the consequences.
Source Time magazine and neurogadget