Google announced the Android hacking capabilities using PNG-images

Google developers have published a report on the February security patches Android, which refers to a dangerous vulnerability of the system. Using it, hackers could get access to the device through a special image in PNG format.

The user would simply download the innocuous at first glance the picture. This can be done in the messenger, via email or any site - a lot of options. Opening it, the smartphone owner can not even find out what started the snippet of malicious code executed in the context of a privileged process.

Simply put, seeing this picture, you can get a virus, penetrating directly into the system processes. The consequences of such intervention can be very different way to steal confidential data.

At risk were all devices based on Android 7.0 Nougat and newer software versions, including Android 9.0 Pie. Fortunately, this vulnerability has never been exploited. Now she is no longer present.

Total in the February security patches for Android eliminated 42 errors, 11 of which were considered critical, and another 30 received the status of highly hazardous and moderately hazardous. That their use is also not fixed.