Android Virus Protection November Update Released: Are Old Smartphones at Risk?

Google выпустила первый после выхода Android 12 патч безопасности. Его получат не только пользователи новейшей

system version. Discuss

At the moment, there are 39 known vulnerabilities that were closed by the update. Including zero-day vulnerabilities used by cybercriminals for hacker attacks.

For example, we are talking about the problem CVE-2021-1048. Experts describe it as a use-after-free kernel problem - with its help, outsiders could locally increase their privileges on the device.

Among the corrected "holes" was the one with the helpwhich scammers could execute arbitrary code in the context of a privileged process by simply sending a specially prepared transfer to the victim's device.

Older smartphones that do not receive a security update are under serious threat. Fortunately, Google usually updates not only the newest but older versions of Android as well.

Source: Android