- Apr 21, 2016
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Just when we thought that the Meltdown and Spectre saga is coming to an end, here’s a discovery that isn’t by any means good news for Samsung customers.
The Galaxy S7, which is one of the most successful flagship phones released by the South Korean phone maker, is vulnerable to a Meltdown attack that could eventually provide hackers with access to stored data.
The discovery was made by researchers from Austria’s Graz Technical University and it will be detailed at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, according to a Reuters report.
More phones potentially vulnerable
The more worrying thing is that the same Meltdown attack could be effective against other phones as well, and the researchers say they are looking into the matter to determine how many devices may be exposed.
“There are potentially even more phones affected that we don’t know about yet,” researcher Michael Schwarz was quoted as saying by the cited source. “There are potentially hundreds of million of phones out there that are affected by Meltdown and may not be patched because the vendors themselves do not know.”
Read more: Samsung Galaxy S7 Can Be Hacked with Meltdown Attack
The Galaxy S7, which is one of the most successful flagship phones released by the South Korean phone maker, is vulnerable to a Meltdown attack that could eventually provide hackers with access to stored data.
The discovery was made by researchers from Austria’s Graz Technical University and it will be detailed at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, according to a Reuters report.
More phones potentially vulnerable
The more worrying thing is that the same Meltdown attack could be effective against other phones as well, and the researchers say they are looking into the matter to determine how many devices may be exposed.
“There are potentially even more phones affected that we don’t know about yet,” researcher Michael Schwarz was quoted as saying by the cited source. “There are potentially hundreds of million of phones out there that are affected by Meltdown and may not be patched because the vendors themselves do not know.”
Read more: Samsung Galaxy S7 Can Be Hacked with Meltdown Attack
