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  2. Stagefright (bug) - Wikipedia

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    The vulnerability has been assigned identifier CVE-2015-6602 and was found in a core Android library called libutils; a component of Android that has existed since Android was first released. Android 1.5 through 5.1 are vulnerable to this new attack and it is estimated that one billion devices are affected. [22]

  3. Bootloader unlocking - Wikipedia

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    Unlocking the bootloader allows installing and running unsigned code on a device, including user customized software. Operating outside the manufacturer specification might usually result in voiding any warranties and may make the device susceptible to data theft, as the integrity of the operating system (as intended by the manufacturer) can no longer be guaranteed. [1]

  4. BlueBorne (security vulnerability) - Wikipedia

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    BlueBorne is a type of security vulnerability with Bluetooth implementations in Android, iOS, Linux and Windows. [1] [2] [3] It affects many electronic devices such as laptops, smart cars, smartphones and wearable gadgets. One example is CVE-2017-14315. The vulnerabilities were first reported by Armis, the asset intelligence cybersecurity ...

  5. Meltdown (security vulnerability) - Wikipedia

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    Meltdown exploits a race condition, inherent in the design of many modern CPUs.This occurs between memory access and privilege checking during instruction processing. . Additionally, combined with a cache side-channel attack, this vulnerability allows a process to bypass the normal privilege checks that isolate the exploit process from accessing data belonging to the operating system and other ...

  6. Speculative Store Bypass - Wikipedia

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    Speculative execution exploit Variant 4, [8] is referred to as Speculative Store Bypass (SSB), [1] [9] and has been assigned CVE-2018-3639. [7] SSB is named Variant 4, but it is the fifth variant in the Spectre-Meltdown class of vulnerabilities.

  7. List of spyware programs - Wikipedia

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    The apps with about 2 million users in total were caught spying in September 2017 by security researchers from AdGuard who then reported their findings to Google. [ 8 ] Hermit is a toolkit developed by RCS Lab for government agencies to spy on iOS and Android mobile phones.

  8. aCropalypse - Wikipedia

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    aCropalypse (CVE-2023-21036) was a vulnerability in Markup, a screenshot editing tool introduced in Google Pixel phones with the release of Android Pie.The vulnerability, discovered in 2023 by security researchers Simon Aarons and David Buchanan, allows an attacker to view an uncropped and unaltered version of a screenshot.

  9. Heartbleed - Wikipedia

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    Android 4.1.1, used in various portable devices. [137] Chris Smith writes in Boy Genius Report that just this one version of Android is affected but that it is a popular version of Android (Chitika claim 4.1.1 is on 50 million devices; [138] Google describe it as less than 10% of activated Android devices). Other Android versions are not ...