90 MILLIONS OF ANDROID DEVICE ARE VULNERABLE TO QUADROOTER ATTACK (CHECK YOURS!!)

Qualcomm chip

Today over 85% of smart phone user are using android devices, But as increases it's no. of user there is also increases it's Vulnerability.

Recently an another android vulnerability has been discovered called QuadRooter attack. vulnerabilities have been disclosed by a team of Check Point researchers at the DEF CON 24 security conference in Las Vegas. It's also said that  Qualcomm chipset is mainly vulnerable to Quadrooter attack that disturb more than 90 millions of android device user worlwide. Obviously 90 million is a big number

More bad is that : Most of those affected Android devices will probably never be patched

There was nearly 4 vulnerability discovered on android device running Android Marshmallow & prior that move with Qualcomm chip will enable an attacker to achieve root-level access to any Qualcomm device.


4 vulnerabilities

1.CVE-2016-2503 : Repaired in Google's Android Security Bulletin

2.CVE-2016-2504 :  Repaired in Google's Android Security Bulletin for August 2016

3.CVE-2016-2059 : It's patch status is unidentified

4.CVE-2016-5340 : It's patch status unidentified


Qualcomm shares some of the famous android devices which are affected to this attack

  #  Blackphone 1 and Blackphone 2
  #  BlackBerry Priv
  #  Google Nexus 5X, Nexus 6 and Nexus 6P
  #  HTC One, HTC M9 and HTC 10
  #  LG G4, LG G5, and LG V10
  #   New Moto X by Motorola
  #   OnePlus One, OnePlus 2 and OnePlus 3
  #   Samsung Galaxy S7 and Samsung S7 Edge
  #   Sony Xperia Z Ultra


How to check and counter the vulnerability

Over millions of devices are vulnerable but how do we know that we are vulnerable with this attack

You can easily check if your device are safe or not using this app Check point free app

Four vulnerabilities have already been mounted in Google's latest set of monthly security updates, and a patch for the rest of flaw are going to come in Sept update

If you are using old android devices having Quadcomm chip-set then you can do nothing about that vulnerability, some new devices have issue a patch but most probably your device will always remain vulnerable