📱 Android Debugging Invites Hackers: Vulnerability Is 3,000 Times Higher

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A new report has found that rooted devices are orders of magnitude more vulnerable to various threats.

According to an analysis by mobile security company Zimperium, when users root their phones, they open the door to a variety of different threats.

Over the course of a year, rooted devices are 3.5 times more likely to be attacked by malware and 12 times more likely to contain hacked apps. Incidents involving system compromise increase by 250 times, and file system compromise by 3,000 times.

🗞 “Despite the decline in the overall number of rooted and jailbroken devices, they still pose a very serious security risk not only to consumers but also to businesses that provide employees with access to important corporate apps and data from their devices,” the report says.

Zimperium found that only 0.1% of consumer devices are jailbroken. For Android, this figure is much higher than for iOS. One in 400 Android devices (0.24%) were found to be rooted, while one in 2,500 iOS phones (0.04%) were found to be jailbroken.