More than a Billion Snapdragon-based Android Phones Vulnerable to Hacking

L33tdawg: See the vuln in action at #HITB2016AMS with a live demonstration on rooting a Nexus 6 equipped with the latest Android release by using a  zero permission required application.

More than a Billion of Android devices are at risk of a severe vulnerability in Qualcomm Snapdragon chip that could be exploited by any malicious application to gain root access on the device.