Samsung being one of the major manufacturers of smartphones has an important model which many users uses in the name of #Samsung Galaxy. Recently a security researcher has found that these phones can be spied easily.
One of the major security breach that can be achieved in the smart phone is spying the incoming voice calls and record them if possible. This can be achieved in samsung galaxy models easily.
Two Security Researcher demonstrated a famous attack known as #Man in The Middle (MiTM) and with that they achieved MiTM attack on the models such as Galaxy S6, S6 Edge and also in Note 4.
The attack needs a special equipment such as #OpenBTS Base Station which will act as a bogus base station. The attack is due to the phone's baseband processor.
The mobile above mentioned considers this bogus base station as a legitimate cellular tower and thus any calls that are incoming and outgoing can be routed through the bogus base station.
By achieving this attack the attacker can record the voice call that are directed towards the cell. This is not possible for everyone as it needs some additional equipment to exploit the attack.
The two security researchers reported the bug to samsung and also the details how to carry out the attack has not yet been disclosed and samsung is expected to fix the bug soon.
P.S : The post is to create awareness and not to create any negative impact.
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