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A research Company in Israel has discovered a new, and more importantly, reliable way, to use the Google Stagefright bug to hack your phone. They are calling it "Metaphor." Unlike the previous vulnerability, which was triggered by a video in an MMS message, this one can be triggered simply by visiting a web page. They even released a paper explaining in detail what you need to do to create this exploit.
There is some good news: if you are on Marshmallow 6.0+ you are not vulnerable to this. Also,
Edit: Google has not confirmed what I edited out.
Source: The Register
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