MediaTek chipset flaw puts millions of smartphones at risk
Hackers are becoming increasingly effective at breaking into smartphones. They do this by exploiting various vulnerabilities . Google releases security updates for Android smartphones every month. However, smartphone manufacturers must also deploy these updates to their devices . But what happens if companies don't take care of the security of their devices?
XDA Developers users recently discovered a vulnerability in MediaTek chipsets that could allow hackers to take control of users. ’ phones This means attackers can do anything they want to their victims’ phones. They can gain access to users ’ personal data and install malicious apps, using the exploit called “MediaTek-Su” .
The worrying thing is that the bug affects almost all of MediaTek's 64-bit chipsets, which means millions of smartphones are affected.
The vulnerability was discovered in early February and MediaTek was immediately notified. However, it turned out that the company had already known about the vulnerability since April 2019. It even released an updateto fix the bug a month after the discovery. However, manufacturers smartphone, the companies that apply these updates to their smartphones, did not bring the update to the vulnerable phones.
Shortly after, XDA Developers users contacted Google, asking it to force tech companies to deploy the update to affected phones. However, Google requested that this information until the March security updates are released. According to Google, the latest updates will fix the problem.
However, all this time, smartphones have remained unprotected, as hackers can take advantage of MediaTek's exploit and install adware, ransomware , and other malicious software on users' smartphones.
