Samsung patches zero-day security flaw used to hack into its customers' phones

Samsung says it has fixed a zero-day security vulnerability that is being used to hack into its customers’ phones.

The phone maker said the security flaw , discovered in a software library for displaying images on Samsung devices, allows hackers to remotely plant malicious code on Samsung devices running Android 13 through the most recent version, Android 16.

Samsung’s advisory said security teams from Meta and WhatsApp privately notified the company on August 13 and was told that “an exploit for this issue has existed in the wild.”

Samsung did not provide a list of devices affected by the vulnerability.

The bug is known as a zero-day because the vendor, in this case Samsung, was given no time to fix the bug before it was exploited.

It’s not immediately clear who is behind the hac