Samsung says it has corrected a zero -day safety vulnerability used to draw its customers’ phones.
Said the phone maker the safety defectDiscovered in a software library to display images on Samsung devices, allows hackers to plant remote malicious code on Samsung devices running Android 13 through the latest Android 16 version.
Samsung’s counseling said security teams from Meta and WhatsApp privately alerted the company on August 13 and told it that “a exploitation on this issue was in the wild”.
Samsung did not provide a list of devices affected by vulnerability.
The error is known as zero day, because the seller, in this case Samsung, did not take time to correct the error before exploiting.
It is not immediately clear who is behind the hacking campaign or how many Samsung customers are influenced and a Samsung spokesman did not respond to request for comments sent before the publication.
However, security corrections coincide with a disturbance of security updates from other telephone software suppliers aimed at tackling a continuing Spyware campaign.
Samsung’s security patches follow separate security corrections issued by Apple and Whatsapp in August, defining the vulnerabilities that security researchers say to target both iPhone and Android users.
Whatsapp told TechCrunch as the messenger manufacturer sent less than 200 alerts to users of the affected users whose phones were targeted or at stake in the campaign.
For its part, Apple has not commented on the vulnerabilities that has been repaired, except to say that the defect was used in a “highly sophisticated attack on specific targeted people”.
Apple alerts magazines to new victims of possible Spyware attacks and asks them to seek ACCESS NOW Digital Security Laboratory. More recently, on September 3, the technological giant informed an unspecified number of its customers that their phones are targeting a part of a Spyware campaign, according to the French government.
