Galaxy phone owners need to install the August security update as soon as it arrives to patch a serious vulnerability.
Back in June, the U.S. government ordered Pixel owners working for the federal government to update their phones by July 4th or stop using them. An advisory from the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) listings that are managed by CISA (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency) said „Android Pixel contains an unspecified vulnerability in the firmware that allows for privilege escalation.“ Privilege escalation would allow an attacker to use an app to capture information that normally would not be available to the bad actor.There is still time to pre-order the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 and Galaxy Z Flip 6
To explain this another way, the aforementioned Known Exploited Vulnerabilities listings determined that CVE-2024-32896 „may be under limited, targeted exploitation.“ Each CVE is a specific vulnerability or flaw that affects mobile devices when exploited by bad actors.
