Billions of users Android (95%) are at risk of intrusion into your system due to a software flaw. The threat includes all Android devices after version 2.2 but, as tested, none have yet been affected by the virus; precautions have already been taken in this regard and patches have been introduced for future updates.
After the flaw renamed "Heartbleed”Which hit millions of PCs in the world last year, is now in danger of extending to smartphones as well. Joshua Drake, vice president for research of Zimperium, explains the "Stagefright" vulnerability of android devices that gives hackers the possibility to enter the device through a simple mms, the latter knowing the telephone number of the 'victims' can have free access to all data and manage most of the functionality of the device.
How does it work?
Upon notification of the mms, the virus spreads in the device without interaction and without the user having to open the message or the linked content and, therefore, if the phone number is on the hacker's list, the virus enters the paired device.
This virus, once entered, has free access to everything such as sensitive data or applications and consequently takes control of many of them such as the microphone or the recorder.
Sub-quoted in a google note regarding this threat:
"This vulnerability has been identified in a laboratory environment on older Android devices and, to our knowledge, no one has been affected by the virus." - as mentioned above - "As soon as we became aware of it, we immediately took action to send our partners a bug fix to protect users"
