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Millions of mobile phones and laptops potentially exposed to attack leveraging baseband zero-days

Ralf-Phillip Weinmann, managing director at security firm Comsecuris, has disclosed a zero-day baseband vulnerability affecting Huawei smartphones, laptop WWAN modules, and IoT components. The vulnerability resides in the HiSilicon Balong integrated 4G LTE modems. The Balong application processor is called Kirin, it is produced by the Hisilicon Technologies, a subsidiary of Huawei Technologies. The affected firmware is present in several Huawei Honor smartphones, including the P10, Huawei Mate 9, Honor 9, 7, 5c and 6. The vulnerability could be exploited by attackers to execute a memory-corruption attack against affected devices over the air.”]

Source: https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/57867/hacking/mobile-baseband-zero-day.html

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