Samsung Galaxy danger confirmed – UK owners must check their phones now [Video]

If you own a Galaxy smartphone you’d be wise to check the settings immediately. Samsung has just pushed out an urgent security patch which mends a number of issues including one – named CVE-2024-44068 – that could allow hackers access to devices. The bug, which was spotted by Google’s Threat Analysis Group, is worrying as – if successful – cyber crooks could steal personal data and take control of devices remotely.

It’s been confirmed that affected devices are all running Samsung’s Exynos chips – if you have a Qualcomm Snapdragon device you should be safe.

You can check online to see what chip is powering your device but the Galaxy S10 is just one of the smartphones that appears to be hit by the problems.

“An issue was discovered in the m2m scaler driver in Samsung Mobile Processor and Wearable Processor Exynos 9820, 9825, 980, 990, 850, and W920. A use-after-free in …

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