The makers of the BlackPhone – a cell phone on the market that offers unusually high levels of security – have fixed a critical vulnerability which allows hackers to perform malicious code on mobile phones.
Attackers only need one phone number to send a message that can compromise them Appliances through the Silent Text app.
The defect may have bad effects on BlackPhone as the device advertises for its security, and comes with a value that does not warrant errors.
Hacker Mark Dowd (mdowd) from Australia, cofounder της Azimuth Security, ανακάλυψε το ελάττωμα κατά τη διάρκεια μιας τυχαίας έρευνα τους τελευταίους μήνες του 2014. Μοιράστηκε τα ευρήματά του με την ιστοσελίδα Register, before the bug fix is released – It will be released today.
"Successful exploitation can give remote code execution with the privileges of the Silent Text application, which works like a regular Android application, but with some additional privileges in the system required to send and receive SMS. So the app has access to contacts, location information, it can write to disk, and of course it has access to the network, "Dowd said, noting that it took him about a week to discover the bug.
The defect could also be combined with other exploits to fully control the device.
