A developer has created an unofficial fix, stopping all A57 performance cores and let. There has been a class action suite filed against Google in the US. Luckily, Google was able in silently fixing the exploit using one program update to support Nexus 6 issued during November and Nexus 6P in January. Users of a Google Nexus 6P or Nexus 5X smartphone are observing a nasty bug: The devices are forced suddenly in a boot loop and becomes non useable. The modem patch, which Google tried introducing, fortunately was a solution brought out even prior to end-users encountering possible untoward incidents, while primarily stopping the hackers towards wreaking havoc. Before Google introduced its line of Pixel smartphones, it previously banked heavily on the Huawei Nexus 6P. By gaining hold over the modem, con artists can eavesdrop or make phone calls, filch call information, pick up mobile data packages, and find out the accurate GPS coordinates of a device together with thorough satellite info.
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Rebooting can be done via leveraging Android Debug Bridge a kind of debugging module that developers also use to side-load application suites of Android. There is special concern about modem diagnostics platform of Nexus 6 since reaching this interface allows the attackers to gain entry into the modem that weakens "integrity and confidentiality," according to the team. Besides, within EFS partition, the attackers were chanced to alter the items too.Īs per Michael Goberman and Roee Hay, researchers from IBM X-Force Application Security Research Team, who divulged more information on the security flaw within certain blog post, exploitation of the vulnerability provides hackers admission into interfaces that provide extra control over any hijacked phone. Following a successful effort, the same hackers were chanced with filching information for e.g., the mobile phones' IMEI numbers locating sources of calls as well as tracing GPS coordinates. Interestingly what IBM's security researchers revealed pertained to hackers' ability to start off a disabled USB. The security flaw belonged to an assortment of loopholes that IBM's X-Force had discovered and which all associated with the CVE-2016-8467 vulnerability within the smart-phones' bootmode that utilizes malevolent power charges and malware-tainted computers for gaining admission into concealed USB interfaces. The Nexus 6 devices enable interception of communications by attackers, such as SMS and phone calls, whereas current days' limitations on the even latest 6p model prevent theft of text messages by the same attackers. Google Patches Difficult Nexus 6P and Nexus 6 Exploit
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