
Updated on 08-25-2015 by Kyle Wiggers: Added news regarding patches for the AT&T variants of HTC’s One M8 and One M9. Jump to List of patched devices for more.Īs such, a hacker could gain control of the device before the victim even knows about the text message, and even if phone owners find the message right away, there is nothing they can do to prevent the malware from taking over their device. The built-in Hangouts app automatically processes videos and pictures from MMS messages in order to have them ready in the phone’s Gallery app. What’s most alarming about it is that the victim doesn’t even have to open the message or watch the video in order to activate it. The exploit in question happens when a hacker sends an MMS message containing a video that includes malware code.


Most hacker-related stories regarding Android are overdone with technopanic, but the newly discovered bug in Android’s multimedia playback tool Stagefright is one that has users more concerned than usual.
