Qualcomm

Pierluigi Paganini November 14, 2019
Flaws in Qualcomm chips allows stealing private from devices

Security vulnerabilities in Qualcomm allow attackers to steal private data from hundreds of million millions of devices, especially Android smartphones. Security experts from Check Point have discovered security flaws in Qualcomm that could be exploited attackers to steal private data from the so-called TrustZone. The TrustZone is a security extension integrated by ARM into the […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 06, 2019
QualPwn Bugs in Qualcomm chips could allow hacking Android Over the Air

Researchers discovered two serious flaws, QualPwn bugs, in Qualcomm’s Snapdragon SoC WLAN firmware that could be exploited to hack Android device over the air. Security experts at Tencent Blade, the security elite unit at Tencent, have discovered two severe vulnerabilities, QualPwn bugs, that could “allow attackers to compromise the Android Kernel over-the-air. “QualPwn is a […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 28, 2019
Critical flaw in Qualcomm chips exposes sensitive data for Android Devices

Researchers devised a new side-channel attack in Qualcomm technology, widely used by most Android smartphones, that could expose private keys. Researchers have uncovered a new side-channel attack that could be exploited by attackers to extract sensitive data from Qualcomm secure keystore, including private keys, and passwords. The attack potentially impacts most of the modern Android […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 09, 2016
900M+ Android users exposed to hack due to Qualcomm Quadrooter flaws

Experts from Checkpoint have found four major vulnerabilities dubbed Quadrooter in Qualcomm chips that expose more than 900M Android users to hack. Security experts from the security firm Checkpoint have found four major vulnerabilities, dubbed Quadrooter, in the firmware running on the in the Qualcomm chips that equip modern Android devices. The Quadrooter flaws could be […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 06, 2016
Three-quarters of Android devices affected by the Qualcomm software flaw

Mandiant – FireEye has disclosed the details of a serious information disclosure vulnerability affecting one of the Qualcomm software package widely used. Security researchers from the Mandiant firm have discovered a “high severity” vulnerability in the Qualcomm tethering controller (CVE-2016-2060) that could be exploited by a malicious application to access user information. Recently Google released an Android update that addresses […]