The Stagefright vulnerability was discovered last year and had put billion+ Android smartphones at risk.
However, Android security team and many smartphone manufacturers have issued patches and updates to mitigate the risks.
In a demonstration, the researchers were able to remotely hack a phone with Stagefright-based exploit.
The team was able to hack devices running Android 2.2, 4.0, 5.0, and 5.1.
Thankfully, other versions of Android dont seem to be affected by the issue.
In other words, Android users who do not have the latest security updates are vulnerable to the hack.
The researchers have described a three-step process to hijack an Android unit in the paper.
The video file resets the mediaserver software and waits for it to restart.
We managed to exploit it to make it work in the wild, co-founder of Northbit Gil Dabah said.
In July 2015, security firm Zimperium was the first to highlight the Stagefright vulnerability.
It was estimated to affect almost all Android devices on the planet.
However, it appears though that the company has not yet released patches for all versions of Android.
Check out the video below to see Stagefright being exploited on a Google Nexus 5.
source: www.techworm.net
