Tag: Samsung

November 17, 2023

The UK division of Samsung Electronics has allegedly alerted customers of a year-long data security breach – the third such incident the South Korean giant has experienced around the world in the past two years. An email to customers, shared […]

July 3, 2023

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has placed a set of eight flaws to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. This includes six shortcomings affecting Samsung smartphones and two vulnerabilities impacting D-Link […]

February 28, 2023

Red Hat extend partnership with Samsung to introduce a virtualized radio access network (vRAN) solution that offers advanced integration and automation features. The technology will be designed to help service providers better manage networks at scale while also addressing the […]

February 20, 2023

It’s not uncommon for sophisticated threat actors to target users with exploits that can be triggered without any interaction from the victim. As an example, Samsung described a scenario where a hacker sends the targeted user a specially crafted image […]

January 6, 2023

Qualcomm announced this week the availability of patches for a dozen vulnerabilities, including five connectivity- and boot-related issues discovered by researchers at firmware security company Binarly. Alex Matrosov, founder and CEO of Binarly, told SecurityWeek that they discovered a total […]

October 31, 2022

A now-patched security flaw has been disclosed in the Galaxy Store app for Samsung devices that could potentially trigger remote command execution on affected phones. The vulnerability, which affects Galaxy Store version 4.5.32.4, relates to a cross-site scripting (XSS) bug […]

September 6, 2022

As part of the incident, which was identified roughly a month ago, an unauthorized third party gained access to some of Samsung’s US systems and exfiltrated information stored on them. Although it had determined that the personal information of some […]

March 25, 2022

The City of London Police has arrested seven teenagers between the ages of 16 and 21 for their alleged connections to the prolific LAPSUS$ extortion gang that’s linked to a recent burst of attacks targeting NVIDIA, Samsung, Ubisoft, LG, Microsoft, […]

March 23, 2022

Cybercriminals, political and other threat actors are trying to exploit the ongoing crisis in Ukraine. Since the start of the Russian invasion in Ukraine, several major software and games developers have fallen victim to cyberattacks. Furthermore, cybersecurity researchers are detecting […]

June 18, 2020

Check Point has discovered a sophisticated campaign of phishing attacks incorporating household names to gain a foothold on corporate networks and harvest login credentials stored on Microsoft Office 365 accounts. Cyber criminals hijacked an Oxford University email server to bombard […]

May 26, 2020

Samsung Electronics introduced a standalone turnkey security solution comprised of a Secure Element (SE) chip (S3FV9RR) and enhanced security software that offers protection for tasks such as booting, isolated storage, mobile payment and other applications. The latest security chip is […]

May 26, 2020

Android smartphone devices produced by the world’s most prominent manufacturers, including Huawei, Samsung and Xiaomi, are being openly shipped and sold with radically different levels of on-board security in different countries, according to researchers at Finland’s F-Secure. This variance highlights […]

March 2, 2020

Unsettling news for anyone who relies on smartphone voice assistants: researchers have demonstrated how these can be secretly activated to make phone calls, take photos, and even read back text messages without ever physically touching the device. Dubbed SurfingAttack by […]

October 15, 2019

A woman in Castleford, UK, discovered that a £2.70 ($3.40) full screen protector for her Samsung Galaxy S10 allowed everyone access via the thumbprint authentication. Thumbprint authentication is now a widely used form of security, also used in essential services […]

July 17, 2019

US telecoms company Sprint has informed some customers that their Sprint accounts have been accessed by hackers via a Samsung website. In a letter sent out to impacted customers, Sprint said it learned of unauthorized access to accounts on June […]

July 5, 2019

Over ten million users have installed a fake Samsung app named “Updates for Samsung” that poses as firmware updates. The malicious app redirects users to a website offering and charging for firmware downloads. Technical details of the attack were shared […]

March 11, 2019

There are reports online claiming face unlock on the new Samsung Galaxy S10 isn’t working as securely as expected, with news of handsets unlocking after scanning a face of someone other than the owner. In fact it appears the Galaxy […]

November 7, 2018

Researchers at Netherlands-based Radboud University, which is active in almost all scientific fields, have discovered grave security flaws in several popular solid-state drives (SSD) that promise full disk encryption. In a nutshell, they can be cracked. Self-encrypting drives are regarded […]

May 15, 2018

Samsung began rolling out patches over the weekend to fix six critical bugs found in its flagship Android handsets as part of its May patch bulletin. Flaws range from a remote code execution bug to a buffer overflow vulnerability, plus […]

November 29, 2017

Samsung Electronics partners with Bugcrowd to deliver timely payments for its Mobile Security Rewards Program. Samsung Electronics is giving its newly minted two-month-old bug bounty program a boost by bringing in Bugcrowd to handle the payment processing, the companies announced […]