Android phones have a very important warning coming today for everyone, and this in the conditions that many of the users around the world do not know how to protect themselves from what is happening. We are talking about a new security problem for Android phones around the world, this one allowing hackers to extract essential information from our phones with the help of some malicious applications.
Android phones have this problem in the Play Core libraries, used on a fairly large scale in the applications that are published in the Google Play Store, this system allows providing updates for applications without reinstalling them through the Google store. The newly discovered vulnerability allows hackers to insert malicious modules into other applications in Android phones through the Play Core system, all without people knowing.
Android Phones: ATTENTION, IMPORTANT Notice to People
Android phones can have passwords, banking information for bank card payments, and many other private information that normally no one should have access to, stolen from applications through this system. Those who discovered this problem for Android phones stated that its exploitation is quite simple, with only a few lines of code, but the impact it has on users is very important, in the end.
“A local, arbitrary code execution vulnerability exists in the SplitCompat.install endpoint in Android Core Play Library versions prior to 1.7.2. A malicious attacker could create an apk that targets a specific app, and if a victim were to install this apk, the attacker could perform a directory traversal, execute the code as the targeted app, and access the data of the targeted app on the Android device. We recommend all users to update Play Core to version 1.7.2 or later.”
Android phones had this vulnerability confirmed by the Google company, which classified it with a risk level of 8.8 out of 10, and of course it has already been patched so that everyone is safe. Of course, you need to install all the security patches that Google has distributed for phones to benefit from this fix for Android phones, so if there is one for your phone, install it.
Android phones have regularly discovered various problems, but Google is moving extremely quickly with their solution, as is normal for a company with so many users worldwide.
