News Summary

• Samsung says it has fixed a zero-day security vulnerability that is being used to hack into its customers’ phones.
• The phone maker said the security flaw allows hackers to remotely plant malicious code on Samsung devices running Android 13 through the most recent version, Android 16.
• Samsung’s security patches follow separate security fixes issued by Apple and WhatsApp in August, fixing vulnerabilities that security researchers say were used to target both iPhone owners and Android users.
• Apple has not commented on the vulnerabilities it patched, except to say that the flaw was used in an “extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals”