Mobile Baseband

Pierluigi Paganini April 09, 2017
Millions of mobile phones and laptops potentially exposed to attack leveraging baseband zero-days

The researcher Ralf Weinmann revealed that millions of mobile phones and laptops are potentially exposed to attack leveraging baseband zero-days he discovered. The researcher Ralf-Phillip Weinmann, managing director at security firm Comsecuris, has disclosed a zero-day baseband vulnerability affecting Huawei smartphones, laptop WWAN modules, and IoT components. Baseband is firmware used on smartphones to connect to cellular […]