A number of popular Samsung Galaxy smartphones, including last year's S22, appear to have been hit by a number of serious security flaws that could allow hackers to attack devices remotely. The worrying flaw has been discovered by Google's security team at Project Zero and it's not a threat that should be ignored.
All a cyber criminal needs is the victim's mobile number which can then be used to compromise the phone without the user knowing anything is wrong.
As Project Zero's Tim Willis explains: "Tests conducted by Project Zero confirm that those four vulnerabilities allow an attacker to remotely compromise a phone at the baseband level with no user interaction, and require only that the attacker know the victim's phone number. With limited additional research and development, we believe that skilled attackers would be able to quickly create an operational exploit to compromise affected devices silently and remotely."
