How IBM researchers have discovered that more than half of Android devices has a dangerous vulnerability, allowing malicious software to take control of the hardware.
The hacker to poisoning device can be used in an innocent-looking application, which is equipped with a “malicious” code snippet . This code allows her to gain access to system privileges, and thus the ability to reach any options, settings and configuration files. As a result, the offender can to take control of a smartphone or tablet , taking with it everything I have only wanted to. What is important – it works quietly in the background, so the user does not even realize that someone uses their device.
Android Lollipop (Photo: Google)
Researchers at IBM have given this vulnerability Name CVE-2015-3825 . It is in all versions of Android from Jelly Bean (4.3) to the latest Lillipop and Android M preview 1. It was presented to the world at a symposium USENIX . Of course, information is transmitted to Google, which has not yet commented on this major discovery.
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