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PSA: Your Samsung Galaxy phone has a security update you should install right now
The update fixes a bug that would allow attackers to take over your phone.
According to Google Project Zero, libimagecodec.quram.so is a closed-source tool that third-party messaging apps use to parse images that attackers could use to hijack a person’s smartphone. The exploit, which was discovered in August by WhatsApp’s security team, was reported to Samsung and Apple behind closed doors so as not to spread the news. There aren’t any public examples of hackers using this vulnerability, but Samsung’s report notes that the Korean tech giant was “made aware of an exploit in the wild.” Thus, while any individual WhatsApp user was unlikely to be targeted, the tools to do so existed.
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