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'Smartphones were never designed to be vaults': How hackers can steal PINs and private data from over a billion Android devices — even while they’re switched off

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  • Ledger’s Donjon team exploited MediaTek phones, recovering PINs and crypto wallet seed phrases
  • Attackers can extract root cryptographic keys from switched-off Android devices via USB
  • Trustonic’s Trusted Execution Environment fails to prevent attacks on one-quarter of Android devices
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