Scan Android for unpatched vulnerabilities with X-ray

X-Ray tests your Android to determine whether there are weaknesses that stay unpatched by your service provider. The X-Ray app provides you with a list of weaknesses that it is able to recognize and allows you to check for the presence of each weeknesses on your system.

X-Ray has specific knowledge about a class of weaknesses known as “privilege escalation”. Such weaknesses can be utilized by a harmful application to obtain main rights on a system and perform activities that would normally be limited by the Android operating system.

A variety of such weaknesses have been found in the core of Android, impacting nearly all gadgets.

Even more have been found in manufacturer-specific plug-ins that may impact a smaller part of Android users. Unfortunately, many of these privilege escalation weaknesses stay unpatched on large communities of Android gadgets despite being several years old.

Mobile anti-virus software efforts to discover harmful programs set up on your system. Obviously, mobile anti-virus is quite worthless in defending against new strikes since the variety of harmful programs that will be created is unbounded. Upgrading your anti-virus signatures every day to address new risks is not a maintainable strategy to security.

Instead of trying to recognize all the possible harmful programs in the galaxy, X-Ray takes a different strategy and looks for the known weaknesses in the actual mobile platform itself. X-Ray doesn’t care whether the programs on your system are good or bad, it only cares whether there are weaknesses present that bad programs often manipulate to obtain full control of your device.

You can download Scan Android for unpatched vulnerabilities with X-ray here or use the QR code below.