Stagefright, a “multimedia playback engine” unique to Google Android phones, has a vulnerability so profound that “that attackers could send a text message with a malicious video file and infect the mobile device without a recipient actually clicking to open the file,” effectively rendering it a “spycam,” The Christian Science Monitor reports. Google has released a patch for the flaw, but “the fix won't help millions of users with older versions of the system that Google no longer supports,” the report continues. Meanwhile, Israeli researchers discovered how to hack into an air-gapped computer “using the GSM network, electromagnetic waves and a basic low-end mobile phone,” Wired reports.
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