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“Tests conducted by Project Zero confirm that those four vulnerabilities allow an attacker to remotely compromise a phone at the baseband level with no user interaction, and require only that the attacker know the victim’s phone number.”

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Project Zero found 18 bugs in Samsung’s Exynos modems, and four give full remote takeover with nothing but a phone number. The fix is to turn off VoLTE and Wi-Fi calling. Pixel 6 owners can’t, because a 2021 update switched VoLTE on and removed the toggle. Google sold the phone, shipped the bug and took away the off switch.