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Serious Qualcomm security flaw could have affected millions of phones – Techradar
Patches should now be rolling out from Android smartphone makers
A now patched security flaw discovered in Qualcomm’s MSM chips could have allowed attackers to gain access to the the SMS messages and phone conversations of around a third of the world’s Android smartphones.
Qualcomm is one of the largest chipmakers around today and its chips are currently found in over 40 percent of smartphones including high-end devices from Google, Samsung, LG, Xiaomi and OnePlus.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-11292, was discovered by security researchers at Check Point…
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