Google says hackers could silently own your phone until Samsung fixes its modems

Web: https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/16/23644013/samsung-exynos-modem-security-issue-project-zero

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Project Zero, Google’s team dedicated to security research, has found some big problems in the Samsung modems that power devices like the Pixel 6, Pixel 7, and some models of the Galaxy S22 and A53. According to its blog post, a variety of Exynos modems have a series of vulnerabilities that could “allow an attacker to remotely compromise a phone at the baseband level with no user interaction” without needing much …

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