If you are an Android user, you should be careful while opening an image in your phone downloaded from any random website or received from an unknown sender.
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Google has reported a series of bugs that allow hackers to attack your Android phone using a malicious PNG file.
These critical vulnerabilities affect millions of devices running on Android 7.0 Nougat to its current Android 9.0 Pie.
These vulnerabilities are identified as CVE-2019-1986, CVE-2019-1987, and CVE-2019-1988. Google has already rolled out the patch to address this issue in February Android Security Updates. Google has patched a total of 42 security vulnerabilities, 11 of which are rated critical, 30 high and one moderate in severity.
However, several third-party smartphone makers take weeks or months to roll out security patches to their phones. Several old devices will also not receive the update at all.