The virus can take the form of any app, the biggest threat to your phone

News alerting Android users has come and a major security flaw has been detected. With the help of this drawback, attackers could install malicious apps that look like real apps on Android devices and steal users' data. The good news is that it has been fixed by a patch rollout from Google.

Android smartphones from Google to Samsung are the most popular devices in the world and they have millions of users. However, if you also have an Android smartphone, then the new report has come to alert you. Researchers at Promon have discovered a major flaw in Android smartphones, which allowed attackers to steal the identity of any real app and then easily save your login details.

The bug named is StrandHogg 2.0 and with the help of it, the malicious version could be installed in the smartphone of users in the form of any popular app. After this, the user himself entered the login details and password, which the attackers could steal. The concern is that attackers could do this with multiple apps at once, making the attack even easier and the attackers had many chances of data theft.

If you understand in easy language, all the apps on your phone could be fake due to this flaw. That is, instead of the real Facebook or Instagram, you would see Facebook and Instagram with malware. In such a situation, as soon as you enter your login details in those apps, the password is stolen. This could be done with any such app and simultaneously many fake apps could also make space in the phone.

Unsafe data of all kinds

Security expert Sophus said, 'It is very difficult to detect such an attack, in such an attacker can steal almost everything from the device. In this way, the GPS data, photos, log-in details, SMS messages, emails, and phone logs of the phone could be easily stolen. ' Experts say that with the help of this, apart from the big hackers, the Criminals can also harm the users for profit. With this help, any device with Android 9.0 could be targeted.

App blocking option

The good thing is that Google has fixed this flaw by releasing a patch update and now the users are safe. Boris Sipot, Senior Security Engineer at Synopsys, said, "It's good that a fast action has been taken by Google here and the fix has been released." Users who have not received the update and some of their apps are behaving strangely, have only the option to block or delete the app. '