Almost 900 million (!) phones are affected by security flaws, which could open the „gates” for the hackers because of QuadRooter!
Checkpoint’s researchers found out that Android phones with Qualcomm processors could have software that might result in vulnerabilities!
Michael Shaulov, head of mobility product management at Checkpoint, said that they took six months to reverse engineer Qualcomm‘s code to find the problems. The flaws were found in software that handles graphics and in code that controls communication between different processes running on a phone. With the vulnerabilities, the hacker can gradually take over the phone and access all the data.
Checkpoint handed over all the information to Qualcomm, who in return patched the bugs, and started to produce fixed versions of CPUs. Mobile makers and operators also got the patches.
These phones are affected:
- BlackBerry Priv and Dtek50
- Blackphone 1 and Blackphone 2
- Google Nexus 5X, Nexus 6 and Nexus 6P
- HTC One, HTC M9 and HTC 10
- LG G4, LG G5, and LG V10
- New Moto X by Motorola
- OnePlus One, OnePlus 2 and OnePlus 3
- Samsung Galaxy S7 and Samsung S7 Edge
- Sony Xperia Z Ultra
That’s not all. With QuadRooter Scanner, you can check if your phone is in danger or not.
Source: BBC.
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