When it comes to security hacks, snooping on your phone calls directly is a pretty big one, and that's exactly what is possible to do with Samsung's newer high-end phones that carry its own "Shannon" line of baseband LTE modems that are paired to the Exynos 7420 chipset.
Security researchers Daniel Komaromy and Nico Golde have found a way to carry out the so-called "man in the middle attack" on phones like the Galaxy S6 or Note 5 that carry Samsung's modems. Through setting up a mobile base station nearby, they were able to use a software vulnerability ...
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