Samsung Galaxy S7 smartphones are prone to hacker attacks. Samsung's Galaxy S7 smartphones include a microchip security bug that was uncovered earlier this year Marcos Alonso Jersey , endangering millions of devices for hackers seeking to spy on their users, researchers said. The Galaxy 7 and other smartphones from Samsung Electronics were previously known as a vulnerability known as meltdown. However, the researchers told Reuters they had found a way to exploit the meltdown vulnerability to attack Galaxy S7 cell phones.

Samsung's Galaxy S7 smartphones include a microchip security bug that was uncovered earlier this year Marcin Bulka Jersey , endangering millions of devices for hackers seeking to spy on their users, researchers said. The Galaxy 7 and other smartphones manufactured by Samsung Electronics were previously considered immune to a security breach known as meltdown. According to the researchers, most PCs Kepa Arrizabalaga Jersey , smartphones and other computing devices in the world were affected.


Researchers at the Graz University of Technology told Reuters that they had found a way to exploit the meltdown vulnerability to attack Galaxy S7 cell phones. The team plans to release their results on Wednesday at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas. They are investigating the impact of Meltdown on other brands and models of smartphones and expect to see more vulnerable devices in the near future, researcher Michael Schwarz told Reuters. "It may affect even more phones that we do not know about yet," he said. "There are potentially hundreds of millions of phones that are affected by Meltdown and may not be patched because the providers themselves do not know it."


Samsung said it had rolled out patches in January and July to protect the Galaxy S7 phones from Meltdown. "Samsung takes security very seriously and our products and services are primarily focused on security Jorginho Jersey ," the company said in a statement. A Samsung spokeswoman did not comment on the number of Galaxy S7 smartphones sold. She said there were no cases where Meltdown was exploited to attack an S7 handset and that no other Samsung phones were known to be vulnerable.




Meltdown and a second vulnerability, known as Specter, can be exploited to expose the contents of the central processing unit of a computing device - a secure inner sanctum. Hackers can exploit these vulnerabilities by either bypassing hardware barriers or tricking applications into revealing secret information such as passwords or bank details. There are no known cases where hackers exploit one of these vulnerabilities in a real attack. However Gary Cahill Jersey , the proliferation of widespread hardware failures has shaken the computer industry and forced chip makers and device manufacturers to overcome the fallout. The Galaxy S7 is currently being used by around 30 million people, according to the research firm Strategy Analytics. Samsung has released two new versions of its flagship Galaxy since the premiere of the S7 in 2016.