Android has an extremely serious alert officially announced by Google for users all over the world, and this is because the problem in question affects all phones. More precisely, those from Google recently released a series of security updates for the Android operating system, and only a few days later they revealed that some of the vulnerabilities that were fixed are being exploited publicly.
Android has 4 0-day vulnerabilities, i.e. unknown to Google before being reported/discovered, being exploited publicly by hackers against users. This means that anyone who doesn't have the latest Android security update can have their phone exploited by hackers, and it seems that some vulnerabilities even allow people to take full control of their devices without them knowing.
Android: ATTENTION! Official Alert for All Phones
Android has pretty quickly solved any kind of problems that arise in the case of the operating system, and it's normal to be like that because Google tries to offer phone users the highest level of security. Android, like any other software, also has vulnerabilities, and Google fixes them quickly after they appear, but the problem is that phone manufacturers do not release updates with them quickly enough for all their customers to be protected.
Android has updated the May security with notes that 4 vulns were exploited in-the-wild.
Qualcomm GPU: CVE-2021-1905, CVE-2021-1906
ARM Mali GPU: CVE-2021-28663, CVE-2021-28664https://t.co/mT8vE2Us74— Maddie Stone (@maddiestone) May 19, 2021
Android has this security update available for installation right now on any of Google's Pixel phones because that's where security patches are distributed quickly. The rest of Android phones have to wait for security patches like this to be released by the manufacturers who developed them, and usually that happens very hard, unfortunately for everyone, so the devices remain vulnerable for long periods of time. time.
Android has monthly security updates released by Google, but phone manufacturers do not release them as often for the users who use their devices.
