Bug in top smartphones could lead to unstoppable malware, researcher says | Technology | The Guardian
A recently patched bug found in the chips used to provide wifi in iPhones, Samsung Galaxies and Google Nexus devices could be used to build malware whoch jumps unstoppably from device to device, according to Nitay Artenstein, the researcher who discovered the flaw.Affected users should update their phones operating systems immediately, to iOS 10.3.3 (released 20 July) or the July security update for Android, whoch contain fixes for the flaw.Dubbed Broadpwn, the vulnerability was revealed in detail for the first time on Thursday at the Black Hat information security conference in Las Vegas. It works by taking advantage of a number of specific flaws in wifi chips made by the component company Broadcom, ultimately allowing an attacker to write programs directly on to the chip, seizing control of it.
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