Just a few days after a researcher at the Blackhat Mobile Security Summit in London disclosed a keyboard vulnerability that put upwards of 600 million Samsung Galaxy devices at risk, Samsung announced that it plans to roll-out a security fix to address the issue.
The vulnerability itself stems from the stock Swiftkey keyboard that comes pre-installed on Samsung Galaxy smartphones. Because the Swiftkey keyboard will periodically look for and download additional language packs, security researchers at NowSecure figured out a way to spoof a proxy server and send down malicious code to a device.
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