NEW YORK: An Egyptian security researcher Mohamed Baset has found a way to hack and unlock handsets from a PC. Hackers can remotely unlock devices and change the pin codes. After that the device will be useless for the owner.
Millions of Samsung devices are at risk of attack due to vulnerability in the firm’s Find My Mobile service. Uses beyond this are not known, and it is unclear whether hackers will be able to exploit it further to access personal information on the device.
Mohamad Baset posted a proof-of-concept video at the weekend that shows him hacking a device, unlocking it, changing the greeting message and remotely calling it.
His hack is controlled using the web on a PC.
There are three modes of attack seen in the video: Remote mobile device lock, remote mobile device unlock, and remote device mobile ring.
The flaw has also been reported by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the US on its National Vulnerability Database (NVD).
The security researchers have given it a high-severity rating of 7.8, with an ‘exploitability sub-score’ of 10.0.
This means it is a relatively easy hack and doesn’t require authentication.
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