New Stagefright bug lets hackers infect Androids through multimedia files

In July, a bug in Android's media playback system called Stagefright, which only needed to send a specially crafted text message to the victim's phone in order to remotely execute code, left nearly a billion devices vulnerable to hackers.

Even though Google promptly issued a patch for that particular vulnerability, the security research company that found the original bug, Zimperium, has now found two new vulnerabilities in Stagefright, enabling hackers to take over an Android device by sending the victim a specially crafted multimedia file