Over 400 vulnerabilities on Qualcomms Snapdragon chip threaten mobile phones usability worldwide. These vulnerabilities could have the following impact on users of phones with the affected chip. Attackers can turn the phone into a perfect spying tool, without any user interaction required The information that can be exfiltrated from the phone include photos, videos, call-recording, real-time microphone data, GPS and location data, etc. Qualcomm provides a wide variety of chips that are embedded into devices that make up over 40% of the mobile phone market.”]
Source: https://blog.checkpoint.com/2020/08/06/achilles-small-chip-big-peril/