This means that millions of Android devices out there are under the threat of AT commands attacks.
AT commands also known as Attention commands, were originally designed in the early 80s for controlling modems.
However, this command is still in use in most modern smartphones to support telephony functions.
They took over 2,000 Android smartphone firmware images across 11 vendors to build a database of 3,500 commands.
They then executed these commands across 8 smartphones from 4 different manufacturers via USB connections.
The researchers presented details of their findings in apaper included in the Proceedings of the 27th USENIX Security Symposium.
Source:Usenix
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