Find out if your Android device is exposed to MMS attacks using Zimperium’s Stagefright Detector App

Last week, security researchers from Zimperium have reported on a vulnerability in Android’s Stagefright media playback library, one that is thought to affect about 950 million active Android devices. In a nutshell, potential hackers can take control of the affected smartphones by sending a malicious SMS. For more details on the Stagefright vulnerability, check out our original post here.

Zimperium has now launched an app that lets users check if their smartphone or tablet is exposed to the Stagefright vulnerability. The app is intuitively called the Stagefright …

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