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Surely this kind of fearmongering is illegal?

jon1

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If it has substance no. But these are, as always, sensationalising headlines by numpties who recycle other peoples articles.

Apparently these devices may be affected and resolved by a recent update.
  • Mobile devices from Samsung, including those in the S22, M33, M13, M12, A71, A53, A33, A21, A13, A12 and A04 series
  • The Pixel 6 and Pixel 7 series of devices from Google
  • Mobile devices from Vivo, including those in the S16, S15, S6, X70, X60 and X30 series
  • Any wearables that use the Exynos W920 chipset (which include the Galaxy Watch 4 and 5)
  • Any vehicles that use the Exynos Auto T5123 chipset.
Interesting Google recommend VoLTE after their Pixel issues on some carriers.
 
How is it fearmongering? According to the article on The Register, four zero day security vulnerabilities have been discovered which could allow remote code execution on any device an attacker knows the phone number of.

The article says one of the four vulnerabilities has been patched by Google on its Pixel devices, but the other three have not yet been patched, and it sounds like all four vulnerabilities have yet to be patched on the other listed devices. Hence Google's advice to disable WiFi calling and VoLTE for now.
 
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How is it fearmongering? According to the article on The Register, four zero day security vulnerabilities have been discovered which could allow remote code execution on any device an attacker knows the phone number of.

The article says one of the four vulnerabilities has been patched by Google on its Pixel devices, but the other three have not yet been patched, and it sounds like all four vulnerabilities have yet to be patched on the other listed devices. Hence Google's advice to disable WiFi calling and VoLTE for now.
Requires a fake mobile network to be operating and for the device to be connected to it
 
Requires a fake mobile network to be operating and for the device to be connected to it
No. The article says there are 14 less severe vulnerabilities which require 'either a malicious mobile network operator or an attacker with local access to the device'. This does not apply to the four severe vulnerabilities.
 
No. The article says there are 14 less severe vulnerabilities which require 'either a malicious mobile network operator or an attacker with local access to the device'. This does not apply to the four severe vulnerabilities.
Baseband modem vulnerability so still requires access to a fake core network to set SDP so yes still need a fake operators network
 
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