Your android phone can be hack by just looking an innocent looking photo.
Are you using device that runs Android OS?
Like me I'm also using smart phone that is Android based and you need to read this article.
Recently I got a e-mail notification saying that there is an on-going exploitation on newly found android bug. By just simply looking or downloading a photo that may look innocent our phone can be hack. This is crazy bug but this vulnerability is only present on Android 7.0 up to the very recent Android 9.0 versions.
According to the report, the attacker or hacker creates a malicious .png (Portable Network Graphics) photo that is injected a malicious code. When this image is open or viewed the malicious code executes with high privileges thus compromising your android based phones.
Google release a patch to this to fix this bug so if you can update your phones operating system then it is time you update this. Sadly some manufactures does not roll out or do not have the capability of sending updates to their users handset. Only well-known mobile brand/manufacturer are able to roll out updates. I hope you are using a latest version of Android OS after you read this article.
Make sure you update your phone to latest version to be protected from this critical bug.
Thank your reading.
PS: If you want to know more details about this please consider reading this full length article here.
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