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hacking samsung galaxy

If you own a Samsung Galaxy Phone S6, S6 Edge or Note 4,

in particular – there are chances that a skilled hacker could remotely intercept your voice calls to listen in and even record all your voice conversations.
Two security researchers, Daniel Komaromy of San Francisco and Nico Golde of Berlin, have demonstrated exactly the same during a security conference in Tokyo.
The duo demonstrated a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack on an out-of-the-box and most updated Samsung handset that allowed them to intercept voice calls by connecting the device to fake cellular base stations.
The issue actually resides in the Samsung’s baseband chip, which comes in Samsung handsets, that handles voice calls but is not directly accessible to the end user.

How to Intercept Voice Calls?

The researchers set up a bogus OpenBTS base station that nearby Samsung devices, including the latest Samsung S6 and S6 Edge, think is a legitimate cellular tower.
Once connected to it, the bogus base station remotely tinkers with the phone’s baseband processor even without any knowledge of the user.
This gives an attacker ability to intercept, listen, and even record your phone calls. In short, the hack attack is a cellular MITM attack, and users have no idea what’s happening

 

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