A bug allows applications to take control of the camera on Android

They have discovered a new security flaw in the Google operating system. A former employee of the company has been in charge of communicating that the problem detected leaves the door open so that through installed applications on the device, attackers can get hold of the camera control and in a totally transparent way for the user, they are in a position to take captures and even obtain the images that are previously stored.

It is curious and somewhat worrying that it had to be Szymon sidorIt was a former Google employee who discovered this vulnerability, and not the company's own current employees, who have more means and first-hand information. We read in Internet Sidor explains, the security problem allows potential attackers, usually experts, to take control of the camera module through a simple application installed on the smartphone or tablet.

If he achieves this first objective, he would be able to once at the controls of this element, take snapshots instantly, which depending on the situation, could provide you with personal information. The worst of all is that the user from his position will not be aware at any time that he has been a victim of this attack, will go totally unnoticed. In addition to being able to capture the image, it could, which is almost more serious, extract images from device that have been previously stored, with all that this entails. These photographs are sent to external servers where they could be analyzed in search of relevant data. And with relevant data we do not refer exclusively to those that appear in the images, since the description itself can contribute interesting things to them.

In this serious problem, one more that appears on the Google platform. It's true that most hackers target Android for tiny cracks to sneak through or spread their malware through, but vulnerabilities of this caliber should be examined and anticipate possible risk situations like the one that arises right now.

Having the large market share having Android puts you in extreme situations very often. From Mountain View they continue working on improving the security of their platform and are achievingor important advances, but at the same time, there is still a lot ahead as shown by the appearance, more frequent than we would like, of news of this kind. As we have been able to know they would be hands at work in search of a solution that it arrives as soon as possible, so it is possible that in the next few hours it will be resolved.