That Android as an operating system exposes us to malware is something natural, and for this reason we must be careful. We always recommend being careful when installing apps outside of the Google Play Store, but the bug they detected in Google Pixel It has nothing to do with the threats we may encounter.
as we read a twitter, a user has created a tool capable of discovering hidden elements in screenshots taken and modified from Google phones. We tested it and we tell you Serious error that would jeopardize information security that we share in the form of screenshot.
Be careful when editing screenshots containing sensitive information
When we want to share certain information, it is very common that we choose to do screenshot. These save us from having to write down the information we share, yes, on some occasions we use image editors to hide or censor private information.
Imagine you want to share your bank account so that they make a deposit, we decided to take a screenshot of the banking app, but since our current balance is showing, we cover it with the pen feature of the editor pixel screenshot image.
On the left is the capture we took and edited from a Pixel 6a. On the right, said capture is passed through the tool that reveals the hidden content.
Well, if we do this action from the same arise which appears when you press the combination of buttons to perform the capture, the information we have hidden stay in the picture, which would be in PNG format. The recipient of said capture would see the image as we edited it, but if they passed it through this tool, they could retrieve the hidden information.
This error was documented and accepted by Google itself, as can be seen on the Mountain View firm’s issue tracking platform. The issue arises as a result of the inbuilt editor in Pixel mobiles, which when saving the edit would retain the data from the original capture.
we could reproduce the bug, as can be seen in the screenshots above. On the contrary, if the capture is edited from another application or from the Google Photos editor, the problem should not appear.
Until Google fixes this bug, if you have a Pixel, We recommend that you edit your images with another applicationnever since the quick tool that comes standard in Android 13 for the American company’s smartphones.
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