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Dave Snelling & Nicole Goodwin

Samsung Galaxy owners urged to switch off Wi-Fi calling on number of devices, including new S22 model

The latest S22 Samsung Galaxy smartphone is among a number of models to fall victim to a number of serious security flaws that could allow hackers to attack devices remotely.

It's a flaw which has been discovered by Google's security team at Project Zero and all it requires is the victim's mobile number which can then be used to compromise the phone without the user knowing anything is wrong.

Project Zero's Tim Willis told The Mirror: "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.

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