+Anyone with an older Android device running Android 8 or 9 needs to be wary of using Bluetooth. A bug was discovered by cyber-security firm ERNW that allows anyone within range of a Bluetooth-enabled Android device to gain access to the device’s storage.
The hacker will need to know some extra details about the device—specifically its Bluetooth MAC address—before they can fully access the internal storage remotely, but as the ENRW’s bug report explains, that’s relatively easy to figure out. And once they’re in, an attacker could easily lift personal files and install malware or other spyware on the device without ever alerting the phone’s user.
The February 2020 Android security patch includes a fix for this bug, so you should download and install the patch if it’s available for you via the standard Android system update process.
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