Security firm warns Android camera vulnerability lets hackers spy on phone owners

Security analyst firm Checkmarx has detailed the discovery of an Android security issue that enables hackers to access a smartphone's camera app, existing videos and images, audio from the microphone and location information pulled from EXIF data. Though the issue has been fixed on Google and Samsung phones, it remains in many camera apps from other vendors The security researchers first analyzed the Google Camera app included on the Pixel smartphones. Upon discovering the security vulnerability...