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Re:Malicious apps infect 25M Android devices with 'Agent Smi... by pmlnr on Thursday July 11, 2019 @11:47AM (#20412437)
> comparatively ancient Android 7.0

7.0 is ancient? 5.1, or rather 4.4 is ancient.

Re:Malicious apps infect 25M Android devices with 'Agent Smi... by Santosh83 on Thursday July 11, 2019 @01:27PM (#20413491)
The Android ver on my phone is 4.1. Still runs just fine, but then again all I use it for are calls/SMS, so there's little scope to be exploited.
Re:Malicious apps infect 25M Android devices with 'Agent Smi... by CannisterFlux on Thursday July 11, 2019 @02:04PM (#20413836)
It might still be vulnerable to stagefright, exploitable over MMS.
Re:Malicious apps infect 25M Android devices with 'Agent Smi... by ajross on Thursday July 11, 2019 @06:53PM (#20416632)
Stagefright is the name of the component, not the exploit. And in most cases, devices from major vendors are going to have patched binaries, even on images as old as Jellybean.
Re:Malicious apps infect 25M Android devices with 'Agent Smi... by sangnoir on Thursday July 11, 2019 @04:10PM (#20415289)
> ...all I use it for are calls/SMS, so there's little scope to be exploited.

You mean little scope of exfiltration (I'm guessing it's not connected to the internet). There are a lot of vulnerabilities in text rendering that can be exploited via SMS.

Re:Malicious apps infect 25M Android devices with 'Agent Smi... by TeMPOraL on Thursday July 11, 2019 @12:25PM (#20412858)
Android with a version number is ancient; current Androids have single letters in their name.