Porno vs Android – CHIP

specialists. Cybersecurity of Blue Coat Systems have discovered a fault on Android Jelly Bean 4.3 and older. It is true that at the moment we have Marshmallow Android 6.0, but hardware manufacturers who reprocess this system to their needs, rarely rush with the update. As a result of 21 percent. equipment is endangered, with marginal opportunities to improve this situation.

This vulnerability does not require any downloads an infected application. Enough to persuade the victim to visit a malicious Web site. That’s how it was discovered, through malicious advertisements served through porn sites.

The attack uses different vulnerabilities in Android, including exploit with the name Towelroot through which an attacker gains permissions root on the system to install an application such as ransomware , the locking device and requesting a ransom to unlock them. Fortunately wicked is relatively easy to remove, it does not encrypt our data.