A French man named Robert Baptiste, a white hat hacker also known as “@fs0c131y” recently discovered the means to hack into every single Samsung smartphone available on the market.
He published his findings on twitter this past May 12th with a link to a Medium article detailing the procedure:
I just published “How to brick all Samsung phones” on @Medium https://t.co/B0uibgZRr5
— Elliot Alderson (@fs0c131y) May 12, 2019 –
Robert acquired a Samsung smart phone a few months ago and decided to take a crack at it to analyze it. After running tests for few hours, he found an unprotected receiver located in the Container/Agent application of the device.
Unlike all-sorts of hacking apps which are currently available on a market of hacking tools sections, Robert used some of the personal customized tools he developed on his own.
Robert also noted the presence of a broadcast receiver named as (more…)