Detected dangerous vulnerability in Android

A vulnerability has been discovered in the Android operating system, through which you can access the personal information of the smartphone owner: from browsing history in browsers to sessions of instant messengers and banking applications.

Positive Technologies expert Sergey Toshin identified & nbsp; this & nbsp; vulnerability in current versions of the Google Android operating system (7.0, 8.0, 9.0) and & nbsp; earlier editions. An error was found in the WebView component, and since it is used in most Android mobile applications, attacks on it are extremely dangerous.

Starting with Android 7.0, to fix the vulnerability, you just need to update your browser. On older versions, you will have to update the WebView component through the Google Play update system, & mdash; reported Toshin.

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