Google cautions Samsung phone owners to halt these applications.

Google has warned Android phone users of a series of dangerous electronic flaws that allow hackers to access their phones and browse their content.

According to a report of the team Security research company’s “Project Zero”, published by “The Sun” newspaper, security vulnerabilities affect Samsung phones and “Google” Pixel 6 and 7 phones, as well as auto using the “Exynos Auto T5123”.

The top 4 cyber flaws allow hackers to access devices via phone number only and without any user interaction, also known as “remote code execution from internet to baseband”.

Adjust the settings

The company has asked Android users to turn off Wi-Fi and voice calls.over-LTE” in the settings to protect against hacking, Pixel phone owners have already received a security update of the fix.

The team has called on all users to update their devices as soon as possible, to ensure they are running the latest versions that address undisclosed and discovered security vulnerabilities.

14 security vulnerabilities

And the company has decided to delay disclosure of the four security vulnerabilities that allow the Internet to run code in remotely, and that means “Google” has 90 days to publicly disclose flaws if they remain unresolved, according to the team.

There are only 4 out of 14 less serious vulnerabilities that have not yet been fixed according to Google, for which Samsung is responsible.

For his part, a spokesperson for “Samsung” said that the company takes the security of its customers very seriously, noting that after identifying 6 vulnerabilities that could affect specific “Galaxy” devices, none of which were “serious”, “Samsung” released patch security for five of them in March.

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