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Wouldn't you know if you'd received a sketchy MMS from a number you didn't recognize?
by ksenzee 11y ago
Wouldn't you know if you'd received a sketchy MMS from a number you didn't recognize?
- ChrisAntaki 11y agoNot if the attacker deletes the message post-pwnage.
- Florin_Andrei 11y agoBut wouldn't there be a trail of notifications, or something?
- 13 11y agoIf malware has root access it can alter everything on the phone without you ever seeing it. Any information falsified, all detection tools subverted.
- fragsworth 11y agoPossibly, if Google is logging everything on their servers. It should be relatively easy for them to find out who got infected.
- deleted 11y ago[deleted]
- kenbellows 11y agoThe most standout part of this attack (to me) is that it can be 100% silent. The fact that the bug hits before the text notification is fired means that an exploit could potentially stop the notification, delete the message, and go on tramping throughout your phone doing whatever it wants leaving absolutely no indication to you the user that you've been hacked.
- mjard 11y agoEven worse, if it's a worm, it's likely it would come from somebody you know.
- lvs 11y agoProper pwnage would erase the MMS as soon as the exploit was complete. The only record of receipt would be on you itemized carrier bill.
- jboy55 11y agoExcept if the MMS went to an iPhone or other device not affected. Unless you can determine Android/iPhone from just a #, apple/blackberry/MS phones would be full of corrupted MMS messages.
- 13 11y agoWhy would it be corrupted? Just because it contains a malicious payload doesn't mean it has to be unviewable normally. Could even just tack onto all outgoing MMS by default and never raise anybodies suspicions.