Security Gap Stagefright in Android Back Again

Security Gap Stagefright in Android Back Again - The research team found a gap Stagefright back on Google's Android operating system. This vulnerability allows an Android device is attacked through multimedia files.

Stagefright security flaw discovered last July has threatened all Android devices worldwide. Although mobile phone manufacturers and Google has launched update security patches for users, but it Stagefright back again.

Zimperium, mobile team of security experts who had previously found Stagefright now returned to find the same security hole in Android multimedia library. With the security hole recently discovered this, Android devices vulnerable compromised (hacked) via malicious encrypted audio files in both the MP3 and MP4. This was announced at the official blog Zimperium Monday (10/01/2015).

This security hole makes the device you may be infected with a dangerous virus, by way of example: when you open a website containing malicious multimedia file, then the OS tries to preview the media file, then your device will be infected. As we know that Google provides several versions of the preview functionality (preview) on its Android operating system. Unfortunately, there is no limit how much potential this new attack. Zimperium researchers said 950 million Android devices may be susceptible to attacks through a gap Stagefright new.

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