Samsung patches nearly 200 security issues on its phone hardware - here's what you need to know
- Oversecured found 176 vulnerabilities across Samsung’s preinstalled mobile apps
- Flaws enabled account takeover, code execution, and traffic hijacking via bloatware
- Samsung patched all reported issues, affecting hundreds of millions of devices
Security researchers from Oversecured have given “bloatware” an entirely new meaning, revealing that they uncovered 176 vulnerabilities - including some rather worrying ones - in Samsung’s mobile apps.
For the last three years, the team analyzed Samsung’s preinstalled system applications and found vulnerabilities that could cause some serious harm. Some of the bugs granted camera and microphone access, while others allowed for remote Samsung Account takeover with nothing more than a single click.
Some flaws allowed for network traffic hijacking via DNS manipulation, and others granted arbitrary code execution via an image. In theory, a malicious actor could craft and send a JPEG image which, when the victim opens, copies and loads attacker-controlled native libraries from the SD...
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