Google’s security teams have discovered 18 zero-day vulnerabilities in several top Android smartphones and Samsung Exynos wearable chips that could compromise those devices. Google’s Project Zero director Tim Willis said in a blog post that the four most serious of these vulnerabilities “allow remote code execution from the Internet into baseband.” Tests by Project Zero confirmed that these four vulnerabilities allow an attacker to remotely compromise a phone’s baseband without user intervention and only require the attacker to know the victim’s phone number. With limited additional research and development, “we…

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