{"id":57429,"date":"2015-07-28T21:00:24","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T13:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=57429"},"modified":"2015-07-28T21:13:42","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T13:13:42","slug":"hackers-break-in-android-phones-through-text-messages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/07\/28\/hackers-break-in-android-phones-through-text-messages\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers break in Android phones through text messages"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9073\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9073\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/text-message.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9073\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/text-message.jpg\" alt=\"(Shutterstock image)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/text-message.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/text-message-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9073\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Shutterstock image)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to cyber firm Zimperium Mobile Security, Android phones can already be hacked through text messages with a so-called \u201cStagefright\u201d code.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAttackers only need your mobile number, using which they can remotely execute code via a specially crafted media file delivered via SMS (text message),\u201d a Zimperium post read.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA fully weaponized successful attack could even delete the message before you see it. You will only see the notification,\u201d the post continued.<\/p>\n<p>Zimperium warned that Stagefright could include video snippets in the text messages. They would then hide their malicious contents in the video files. Even if the Android phone owner never opens or reads the text message, the malicious contents will still be unleashed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe targets for this kind of attack can be anyone\u2026 These vulnerabilities are extremely dangerous because they do not require that the victim take any action to be exploited,\u201d Zimperium said.<\/p>\n<p>Stagefright has already been reported to Google.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGoogle acted promptly and applied the patches to internal code branches within 48 hours, but unfortunately that\u2019s only the beginning of what will be a very lengthy process of update deployment,\u201d Zimperium said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to cyber firm Zimperium Mobile Security, Android phones can already be hacked through text messages with a so-called \u201cStagefright\u201d &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":9073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-57429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-rewrite","mauthors-cyra-moraleda","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}