{"id":137945,"date":"2022-04-10T18:03:35","date_gmt":"2022-04-10T23:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/warning-for-samsung-users-as-pre-installed-app-could-let-hacker-control-phone"},"modified":"2022-04-10T18:03:35","modified_gmt":"2022-04-10T23:03:35","slug":"warning-for-samsung-users-as-pre-installed-app-could-let-hacker-control-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/warning-for-samsung-users-as-pre-installed-app-could-let-hacker-control-phone","title":{"rendered":"Warning for Samsung users as pre-installed app could let hacker control phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/warning-for-samsung-users-as-pre-installed-app-could-let-hacker-control-phone2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MILLIONS of owners of the Samsung Galaxy smartphone face a security threat.<\/p>\n<p>Those with an Android version 9 through 12 are at risk.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Kryptowire published a report detailing how they discovered a serious vulnerability in the pre-installed Phone app across multiple models that could enable a hacker to take control of someone\u2019s phone, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/daveywinder\/2022\/04\/09\/serious-security-shock-for-millions-of-samsung-galaxy-android-9-12-users\/?sh=26a34e9a5f20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Forbes<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MILLIONS of owners of the Samsung Galaxy smartphone face a security threat. Those with an Android version 9 through 12 are at risk. Researchers at Kryptowire published a report detailing how they discovered a serious vulnerability in the pre-installed Phone app across multiple models that could enable a hacker to take control of someone\u2019s phone, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}