Qualcomm Chipset on your Android Smartphone?Over 900 million devices at Risk (Check it)

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Is your device has Qualcomm Chipset on your android smartphone.Over 900 million devices are in risk.
A serous vulnerability dubbed name "Quadrooter" has discovered by researcher.There are four set of vulnerabilities discovered in devices. Marshmallow and earlier ship with qualcomm chip. Hackers can get gain root-level access to any Qualcomm devices. Around 900 Million devices affected and counting.


How attack Happens?
According to researchers,the attackers need is to write a piece of malware and send in to the victim.When it is installed the malware offers the attackers privilege escalation on affected devices.These malwares did'nt need any special permission to get into system. It can also affect the non-rooted devices.

Critical Quadrooter Vulnerabilities:

The four security vulnerabilities are:

1. CVE-2016-2503 discovered in Qualcomm's GPU driver and fixed in Google's Android Security Bulletin for July 2016.
2. CVE-2016-2504 found in Qualcomm GPU driver and fixed in Google's Android Security Bulletin for August 2016.
3. CVE-2016-2059 found in Qualcomm kernel module and fixed in April, though patch status is unknown.
4. CVE-2016-5340 presented in Qualcomm GPU driver and fixed, but patch status unknown.

Qualcomm is the world's leading designer of LTE (Long Term Evolution) chipsets with a 65% share of the LTE modem baseband market. If any one of the four flaws is exploited, an attacker can trigger privilege escalations for gaining root access to an affected device.
Source: thehackernews.com
List of devices affected by malwares.
*Samsung Galaxy S7 and Samsung S7 edge
*Sony Xperia Z ultra
*Oneplus one,Oneplus 2 and ONeplus 3
*Google nexus 5x ,Nexus 6 and Nexus 6p
*lg G4,lg g5 and Lg v10
*Blackberry Priv and more


How to keep far from these malware's?
*Turn off the unknown source of software installation
*Keep  on verify app option
*Install app from Known sources or play store
*Keep strong Anti virus I suggest Kaspersky.


How to find your device effected or not?

You can ceck your device vulnerable or not from QuadRooter Scanner. A step to step guide to how-to install.

Download Quadrooter Scanner from here . Quadrooter.apk (Google Play)


[Image Source: Google play]

1-Download Quad rooter then tap to scan


2-Wait while scanning


3-cOMPLETED if your device is affected it shows.





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Full article : Thehackernews.com