More than 900 million phones with Android, in all its versions- risk that third parties can access all information stored on computers due to a number of security flaws in the Qualcomm chips, according to researchers determined .
he said today the BBC, a study by security firm Checkpoint found a vulnerability in the architecture of the chips manufactured by the US company Qualcomm, which are present in most serial devices Android worldwide.
If exploited, these failures that experts called “Quadrooter” would allow attackers access to computers as “root” (administrator), so they could take control appliances and -photos access all information, videos, microphone, applications-plus, for example, remove or delete it.
to do so, the attackers should install malware on those phones. However, unlike other types of malicious code using this vulnerability would not need to obtain special permits, so you could, for example, installed from Google Play.
Among the vulnerable computers are not many of range high and other high traffic, such as Motorola Moto X; BlackBerry Priv; Blackphone blackphone 1 and 2; Google Nexus 5X, Nexus 6 and Nexus 6P; HTC One, HTC M9 and HTC 10; LG G4, G5 LG and LG V10; One OnePlus, OnePlus OnePlus 2 and 3; Samsung Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge manufactured in the United States; and the Sony Xperia Z Ultra.
However, the British broadcaster said that “there is no evidence that these vulnerabilities are currently being used in attacks or ciberrobos”.
“I am very sure that these vulnerabilities will be used in the next three or four months, “said Michael Shaulov responsible for Checkpoint.
” there is always the race who find fault first, are the good guys or bad, “he said.
After detecting this failure in a job of reverse engineering sued six months, Chekpoint contacted with Qualcomm to create a patch, which was distributed to phone manufacturers, but not yet clear how these companies carry forward the equipment upgrades.
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