11 days ago | By Digital Trends

A recent report says that a laundry list of Samsung and Google devices are vulnerable to hacking. Here's what you need to know to stay safe.
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Samsung is taking forever to fix lethal Exynos bug affecting Galaxy S22 and Pixel 6

11 days ago | By Phone Arena

Hackers only need a phone number to gain access to Galaxy S22, Galaxy A53, Pixel 6, Pixel 6a, and a bunch of other Android devices.
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Several zero days are plaguing Android devices with Samsung chips, warns Google

11 days ago | By TechRadar

Google is warning that some Samsung-powered Android devices are suffering from high-severity vulnerabilities which allow threat actors to compromise the endpoints remotely without user interaction. In a blog post published on the Project Zero website earlier this week, Google's researchers said that they reported 18 zero-day vulnerabilities found in Samsung's Exynos Modems in late 2022 and early 2023. Of those 18, four are high-severity, allowing for internet-to-baseband remote code execution. With many organizations relying on mobile devices power their workforce, financially-motivated...
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Your Samsung phone may have a big security flaw - here's how to stay safe

11 days ago | By TechRadar

Google's security research team has discovered some major vulnerabilities in Pixel and Samsung Galaxy phones that you'll want to protect yourself against as soon as you can. The issues were discovered in the Exynos modems produced by Samsung that are used by a variety of smartphones including the Google Pixel 6 , Google Pixel 7 , and Samsung Galaxy S22 among others. As revealed in the Project Zero team's blog post people using a device that relies on this chip will want to turn off Wi-Fi calling and Voice-over-LTE in their device settings in order to protect themselves until a security...
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Galaxy S22 & Pixel 7 at risk due to critical Exynos vulnerabilities

11 days ago | By Android Headlines

Security researchers at Google ‘s Project Zero team have discovered multiple serious zero-day vulnerabilities on Samsung's Exynos modems. The vulnerabilities affect dozens of smartphones and wearables from Samsung, Google, and Vivo. The Galaxy S22 series, Galaxy A53, Galaxy A33, Pixel 6 series, Pixel 7 series , Vivo X70 series, and the Vivo S16 series are among the affected devices.
In a recent blog post , Project Zero revealed that they have discovered 18 zero-day vulnerabilities in Exynos Modems produced by Samsung Semiconductor. Four of those are critical flaws that could lead to...
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Samsung, Pixel devices vulnerable to exploits that expose calls and texts

11 days ago | By MobileSyrup

Google's 'Project Zero,' an in-house team of cybersecurity experts and analysts, warned in a new blog post of 18 different potential exploits in some phones using Samsung's Exynos modems. That includes devices from Samsung, Vivo and Google's own Pixel line .
Project Zero warns that the exploits are severe and should be treated as zero-day vulnerabilities - the term 'zero-day' refers to recently-discovered exploits that software makers and manufacturers have zero days to fix. The exploits could allow malicious actors to compromise a device just by knowing the associated phone number, and...
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