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Author Topic: Yet another Android exploit!  (Read 4127 times)

parkdale

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Yet another Android exploit!
« on: November 16, 2016, 06:13:28 PM »

Found interesting article in 'The Register' more Android exploits, this time at hardware level :o

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/11/15/android_phoning_home_to_china/
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NEXUS2345

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Re: Yet another Android exploit!
« Reply #1 on: November 16, 2016, 06:46:39 PM »

This isn't an Android exploit, as this only affects a single manufacturer, and is also not hardware, it is software. It is the software used by BLU to deploy over the air updates. Only BLU handsets are affected.
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