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Hundreds of Millions of Android Users Were Exposed to Severe Vulnerability

By Nick V
November 19, 2019

The outbreak was identified by Israeli researchers from Checkmarx who found it possible to run the camera app remotely, wiretap, and get the smartphone’s location.

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