New Delhi: Cases of bugs (viruses) in smartphones are increasing day by day. It is a matter of concern that even the big tech companies are not completely successful in dealing with them. Now another virus associated with Android smartphones has been detected. This virus allows hackers to click photos and record videos even when the device's screen is locked. Google and Samsung, the world's two biggest tech companies, have confirmed this bug.
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This virus has been discovered in Google pixels. This bug has been detected by the Checkmarks Security Research team. This bug hacking smartphone camera is named CVE-2019-2234. A researcher associated with this team said on his blog, 'Our team thoroughly researched Google's camera app on Google Pixel 2 XL and Pixel 3. In this research, we came to know many such dangers that can harm smartphones and users due to permission bypass. Upon further investigation, we found that the same danger is present in many other smartphones that work on Android. Samsung's Android smartphones are also not protected from this threat. This is a matter of great concern as the number of Android smartphone users is in crores.'
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It has been emphasized in research that this bug remains active even with the taking of photos and videos, even when the device and its screen are locked. Not only this, it can easily do its work even in the middle of a phone call. Knowing all these dangers, it is not a difficult task to guess the loss of privacy of users. Not only this, researchers have said that this bug can be continuously monitored by the location of the user by hacking the GPS. Efforts will continue to fix the bug.
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Researchers have told that the Android camera application usually stores images and videos on the SD card. In this case, apps need permission to access them. The problem with this is that the storage permissions are very wide and because of this the apps get access to the entire SD card. The research firm shared its report with Google in July this year. In this regard, Google thanked the research firm for finding this bug. Currently, Google and the Checkmarks research team, along with Android Partners, are trying to fix this bug.
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