Monday, July 27, 2015 | 6:11 pm
Mobile Android can be infected only receive a picture via a text message sent by a hacker, according to research company Zimperium security.
This vulnerability is perhaps the most serious failure of the smartphone discovered until today, affecting an estimated 950 million phones worldwide, about 95% of the Android in use.
According to the study, A hacker can exploit this vulnerability to insert malicious code into a video and send it through a text message . Turning the phone receiving the message, the vulnerability of the operating system is running.
This security flaw stems from the way the phone Android analyze incoming text messages. Even before opening a message, the phone automatically processes multimedia attachments, including images, audio or video.
That means a file loaded with malware can begin to infect the phone as soon as they have received, says Zimperium . However, security firm says there is still no evidence to say that the vulnerability has been exploited publicly. Google and was warned of the failure and is expected to take measures to avoid harming users
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