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

TL;DR

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. It seems like it’s the latter case here — as TechCrunch notes, Project Zero researcher Maddie Stone tweeted that “end-users still don’t have patches 90 days after report,” which appears to be a prod at Samsung and other vendors that they need to deal with the issue. Samsung didn’t immediately reply to The Verge’s request for comment on why there doesn’t appear to have been a patch yet

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