Joshua Drake, the security researcher who discovered the flaw, told Forbes that the only thing a hacker would need to send out exploitations would be phone numbers. Any app that can read your text messages sits on top of that code, from Google Hangouts to your pre-installed default “Messaging” program.
Stagefright is a tool Android uses to play back media - any text you get that’s an MMS (as opposed to an SMS) is played back to you using Stagefright. The damage travels by text, Forbes reports, and takes advantage of a weakness in a piece of code called Stagefright. A vulnerability that would let a hacker take over your phone remotely has been announced, and it’s a doozy. ( Scott Akerman)It’s a bad news Monday for up to 950 million - yes, that’s almost 1 billion - Android device owners worldwide.
