Hack phone on the Emergency
Lockscreen hack exposes Android smartphones to full control by hackers
A critical bug allows hackers to gain access to Android smartphones/tablets.
This
Android smartphone hack affects all devices running versions of Android
5.x which means that a millions of Android smartphones in circulation
worldwide are susceptible.
The process of attack :
:one:From the locked screen, open the EMERGENCY CALL window.
:two:
Type a few characters, e.g. 10 asterisks. Double-tap the characters to
highlight them and tap the copy button. Then tap once in the field and
tap paste, doubling the characters in the field. Repeat this process of
highlight all, copy, and paste until the field is so long that
double-tapping no longer highlights the field. This usually occurs after
11 or so repetitions.
:three:.
Go back to the lockscreen, then swipe left to open the camera. Swipe to
pull the notification drawer down from the top of the screen, then tap
the Settings (gear) icon in the top right. This will cause a password
prompt to appear.
:five:.
Long-tap in the password field and paste the characters into it.
Continue to long-tap the cursor and paste the characters as many times
as possible, until you notice the UI crash and the soft-buttons at the.
bottom of the screen disappear, expanding the camera to fullscreen.
Getting the paste button can be finicky as the string grows. As a tip,
always make sure the cursor is at the very end of the string (you can
double-tap to highlight all then tap towards the end to quickly move the
cursor there) and long-tap as close to the center of the cursor as
possible. It may take longer than usual for the paste button to appear
as you long-tap.
:five:
Wait for the camera app to crash and expose the home screen. The
duration and result of this step can vary significantly but the camera
should eventually crash and expose sensitive functionality. You should
notice the camera lagging as it attempts to focus on new objects. Taking
pictures via the hardware keys may speed up the process, though it is
not strictly necessary. If the screen turns off due to inactivity,
simply turn it back on and continue waiting. In some cases the camera
app will crash directly to the full home screen as seen below, whereas
other times it may crash to a partially rendered home screen as seen in
this
alternate.
:six:
Navigate to the Settings application by any means possible, e.g. by
tapping the app drawer button in the bottom center and finding it in the
app list. At this point it is possible to enable USB debugging normally
(About phone > tap Build number 7 times, back, Developer options
> USB debugging) and access the device via the adb tool to issue
arbitrary commands or access the files on the device with the full
permissions of the device owner.
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