Serious security hole has been discovered in
Samsung smartphones. According to a member of
XDA-Developer forum named
'alephzain' the vulnerability exists in the
Samsung Galaxy S III, Galaxy S II and
Galaxy Note II along with several other Samsung devices. As per sources the
vulnerability is marked as
"severe". This vulnerability could provide a malicious way for remotely downloaded apps to read user data, brick phones and perform other malicious activities. In other words, this hole could allow a malicious app free reign over your smartphone’s memory, and basically take complete control of your device. Prepare tin foil hats. Another XDA-Developer user,
supercurio says Samsung has been notified of the security hole, but had not yet acknowledged the issue. That is until this morning when Samsung dropped word to Android Central that they are “currently in the process of conducting an internal review” in reference to the security hole. Supercurio says the potential exists for millions of devices to be in harms way, especially those with
Exynos 4210 and
4412 processors that use Samsung code. Another XDA user,
Entropy512 adds “this exploit changes things — there is a no root exploit that can be used by an app straight from the market, in the background, with little to no user intervention.”
While talking about security holes in Samsung phones, then we would like to remind you that few moths ago, researcher have unveiled several android based handsets including Samsung Galaxy S3, S2 were vulnerable to
'remote wipe' hack.