Researchers at security firm Trend Micro, based on the online information posted is captured at the hack Hacking Team.
The Italian company supplied software for intelligence agencies and governments could make abuse of unknown vulnerabilities programs and operating systems to keep persons and companies in mind.
Now it seems that Hacking Team has developed its own Android app called BeNews. The app is now offline, but exploited a vulnerability in Android so the app without Google’s systems could carry it through had malicious code.
Vulnerability
The application early in the installation but, three general powers and was labeled as safe by the automatic control of Google. Then the app thanks to the vulnerability in Android, however, could execute code of a web page when the user started the app. Then watch the systems of Google, however, no longer with.
The vulnerability affects at least Android 2.2 to Android 4.4, but according to Trend Micro is not excluded that the new Android 5.0 and 5.1 may also be affected. Tens of millions of devices would therefore be vulnerable.
instructions
Hacking Team would the app among its customers have spread with detailed instructions on how the vulnerability could be exploited. There may therefore be more apps in circulation (were) acting in the same way.
In addition, the leak is still not closed and is the information about how the vulnerability can now be so abused in the street. That means that others can make such malicious apps, warns Trend Micro.
Earlier surfaced been two serious vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash that were unknown and were immediately after the publication of the stolen data Hacking Team abused .
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