Samsung phones are vulnerable to hacker attacks, the researchers from Graz discovering that the Korean company's products can be exploited so that users can be spied on, and any kind of data can be extracted from them. We are talking about vulnerability exploitation Meltdown, which not only infects Intel or AMD processors, but also those in smartphones, and Samsung phones are vulnerable to hackers willing to exploit them.
Samsung Galaxy S7 is one of the models that can be exploited by hackers, but researchers claim that including other phone models produced by Koreans can be exploited very easily based on the Meltdown vulnerability. Those from Samsung stated that they have already applied two patches for the processors in the Samsung Galaxy S7 phones, most recently in July, but it seems that users are not sufficiently well protected against the vulnerability.
ATTENTION: Samsung phones have a SERIOUS PROBLEM
The Samsung Galaxy S7 is the latest phone model to be affected by the Meltdown vulnerability, but older models also have the exact same problem, according to Graz researchers. Practically, many phone models released before the Samsung Galaxy S7, including, must be treated with great care, because they can be exploited and controlled remotely by hackers without the users knowing what is happening, but also without them can protect in any way from attacks.
"The Galaxy 7 and other smartphones made by Samsung Electronics were previously thought to be immune to a security vulnerability known as Meltdown. Researchers from Austria's Graz Technical University told Reuters they have figured out a way to exploit the Meltdown vulnerability to attack Galaxy S7 handsets. There are potentially hundreds of millions of phones out there that are affected by Meltdown and may not be patched because the vendors themselves do not know."
Samsung is not the only manufacturer that has phones that use processors that are vulnerable to Meltdown, but the Koreans seem to be the only ones that have not applied enough changes to the software, so that the vulnerability is covered. Unfortunately for those who own such models of Samsung phones, the only solution is to wait for new updates from the Koreans and hope that they will solve the problems, although the previous ones failed to offer the normal protection.