Many Android Users Susceptible To Plug-In Exploit -- And Many Of Them Have It

Ars Technica reports that a recently reported remote access vulnerability in Android is no longer just theoretical, but is being actively exploited. After more than 100,000 downloads of a scanning app from Check Point to evaluate users' risk from the attack, says Ars, In a blog post published today, Check Point researchers share a summary of that data—a majority (about 58 percent) of the Android devices scanned were vulnerable to the bug, with 15.84 percent actually having a vulnerable version of the remote access plug-in installed. The brand with the highest percentage of devices already carrying the vulnerable plug-in was LG—over 72 percent of LG devices scanned in the anonymized pool had a vulnerable version of the plug-in.

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OMG - Mine is INFECTED!

[Overzeetop]

I just realized that my LG G3 has the exploit vulnerability - and I'm freaking out because I know that it has been exploited!!!

Oh, wait...I put that on there so I could root my device.

Nevermind.