Billion Android smartphones are vulnerable to hackers – Russian newspaper

More than 900 million Android-smartphone are vulnerable to hacker attacks, Phone Arena writes with reference to the analyst company Rapid7 Todd Beardsley. In relative terms, it is more than 60 percent of all mobile devices based on Android, which are in use.

The reason, according to Beardsley became a module called WebView, for displaying Internet content in a variety of mobile applications. According to experts, the developers of Google declined to update the component versions for Android 4.3 or earlier.

It is noted that the owners of gadgets based on Android 4.4 KitKat and 5.0 Lollipop (there are about 40 per cent of the total number of users ) because in these versions of the mobile software platform used by another module to display web content in applications.

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Chromium and since the release of Android 5.0 can update through Google Play, – writes OpenNet. – Outdated engine used in Android 4.3 and earlier releases, is no longer updated, which led to the creation of 11 working exploits, through which you can attack the device on the basis of past issues platform Android. A few days ago exploits data included in Metasploit and publicly available, so you can use them to launch attacks “.

It is also noted that Google has not yet responded to the criticism in the press about the lack of updates WebView. Nothing partners The company offers their own search techniques correct this error and its possible consequences.