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According to a blog post from Google Project Zero (via TechCrunch ), a trio of zero-day vulnerabilities in some newer Samsung Galaxy phones was being exploited by a commercial surveillance vendor. These companies could be telecom or tech firms tracking their customers for the purpose of monetizing personal data by sending custom advertising. Or it could be more sinister (more on this below). Certain Samsung Galaxy handsets using the homegrown Exynos chipset had these vulnerabilities According to the Federal Trade Commission , such companies engage in the "collection, aggregation, analysis, retention, transfer, or monetization of consumer data and the direct...
