How New Security Flaws in More Than 1 Billion Smartphones Puts Users at Risk

The team was ready to find quite 400 lines of code vulnerabilities in digital signal processors found on Qualcomm chips. the small print of this exploit is being kept confidential to attenuate the danger of somebody taking advantage of them.

 

The team members discovered that attackers can use Achilles to show someone’s phone into a spying tool with none user interaction. Further, they will also leave the mobile device completely unresponsive and therefore the malicious code can completely hide their activities and become unresolvable.

 

The researchers were quick to warn Qualcomm about the vulnerability and therefore the chipmaker has already started updating the drivers and codes. The updates will become available to vendors soon who will push updates to the phones as soon as possible.

 

On the brilliant side, the researchers have said that it's highly unlikely that anyone has used this exploit and there's no evidence of anyone doing so either. They added that as long as you download apps and software from trusted sources, you ought to be okay.