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

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

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Illustration of two smartphones sitting on a yellow background with red tape across them that reads “DANGER”

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge

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 more than a victim’s phone number. And, frustratingly, it seems like Samsung is dragging its feet on fixing it.

The team also warns that experienced hackers could exploit the issue “with only limited additional research and development.” Google says the March security update for Pixels should patch the problem — though 9...

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