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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Wed Oct 25 2023 19:30:05

The Samsung Galaxy S23 just got hacked big time - should you be worried?

Date:
Wed, 25 Oct 2023 18:19:56 +0000

Description:
Hackers are competing to breach Samsung's latest flagship Galaxy S23 phone, 
with two groups already being successful.

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Two groups of white hat hackers have managed to break into the Samsung Galaxy 
S23 flagship smartphone with the latest software and security updates 
installed, granting them the ability to execute all kinds of code on the 
device. 

The demos happened during the Pwn2Own 2023 hacking contest thats currently 
taking place in Toronto, Canada. The first group to successfully break into 
the Galaxy S23 device was Pentest Limited. By exploiting an improper input 
validation vulnerability, the group gained code execution ability, as well as 
a $50,000 reward from the organizers. 

The second group to achieve a similar result was STAR Labs SG, which 
exploited a permissive list of allowed inputs, and earned them a $25,000 
reward. 23 vulnerabilities 

On the second day of the event, security researcher Le Xich Long, as well as 
researchers from Interrupt labs, will also be probing into the device, 
BleepingComputer added. 

Besides hacking Samsungs flagships, the events participants also found and 
demonstrated zero-day vulnerabilities in the Xiaomi 13 Pro, various printers, 
smart speakers, Network Attached Storage ( NAS ) endpoints, and surveillance 
cameras, from popular manufacturers such as Western Digital, QNAP, Synology, 
Canon, Lexmark, and Sonos. 

On the first day, the participants demoed 23 zero-day vulnerabilities, 
earning a total of $438,750 in rewards. More from TechRadar Pro Online 
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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/the-samsung-galaxy-s23-just-got-hacked-
big-time-should-you-be-worried


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