Posts Tagged ‘root privileges’

Levitator: Root on your Android phone

Nov

2011

A few days ago, Jon Larimer and Jon Oberheide published a vulnerability for Android platforms < 2.3.6. David Maciejak and I were curious to run it on an Android phone. Result: it runs perfectly 🙁 So, what is this to us? Well, it’s a new way to root Android phones running 2.3.4. We already had […]

Category Security Written by Fortinet Security Blog 0 Comments

Rooting Exploit for Android Works Silently

Sep

2011

In our last blog about Android malware, we discussed the expanding threat landscape for Android malware. Recently, we received an Android package in our collection and observed that this malicious application uses a rooting exploit that targets Android devices running OS Versions 2.3 or earlier to gain root privileges on the compromised device. The malware […]

Category General Written by Blog Central > McAfee Labs 0 Comments

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