Android users, your smartphone’s ‘security’ may be at risk, here’s what government wants you to do

Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-IN) recently issued a warning for Android smartphone users. The government body has reported that it has found several new vulnerabilities in several versions of Google’s Android operating systems. Also, CERT-In has classified these vulnerabilities as ‘high severity and reported that these vulnerabilities can be “exploited by an attacker to gain elevated privileges, execute arbitrary code, gain access to sensitive information and cause a denial of services (DoS) condition on the targeted system”.

For those unaware, CERT-IN is a nodal agency under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. It deals with cybersecurity threats like phishing and hacking.