Nearly 1 billion Android devices said to be infected with Qualcomm vulnerability exploit

Four new vulnerability exploits have been found on over 900 million Android smartphones, with Qualcomm chipsets found to be the root cause.
Researchers from security experts Check Point detected the vulnerabilities affecting all Android devices running a specific Qualcomm chipset. Since the vulnerabilities are found in the software drivers Qualcomm ships with its chipsets, and since said drivers are pre-installed on devices straight out of the factory, they can only be fixed by installing a patc