Six new vulnerabilities in Android bootloaders uncovered – TechTarget

Six new vulnerabilities in Android bootloaders uncovered
TechTarget
"The goal of BootStomp is to automatically identify security vulnerabilities that are related to the [mis]use of attacker-controlled nonvolatile memory, trusted by the bootloader's code," the team explained in their paper, "BootStomp: On the Security

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Multiple Vulnerabilities Found in NVIDIA, Qualcomm, Huawei Bootloaders

Researchers find six previously unknown memory corruption and unlock-bypass vulnerabilities in major chipset vendors’ firmware code.
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Devices Not Running Android 8.0 Oreo are Vulnerable to This Malware Attack – Guiding Tech


Guiding Tech

Devices Not Running Android 8.0 Oreo are Vulnerable to This Malware Attack
Guiding Tech
… secure but according to a recent research, devices running on Android Nougat and below are vulnerable to a toast overlay attack which can harm the users by stealing credentials, installing malicious apps silently and even conducting a ransomware

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Samsung Mobile offers Rs 1.3 crore reward for discovering security flaws – T2 Online


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Samsung Mobile offers Rs 1.3 crore reward for discovering security flaws
T2 Online
But Samsung Bug Bounty will not include any flaws related to Android OS or Qualcomm chipset. Recently, Google has increased the bounty for finding a bug in Android OS to as much as $ 2,00,000. Samsung started the bug bounty programme following …

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