Google Project Zero Team Reveals Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge Flaws

A recent blog post by Google’s Project Zero read that the security team found “11 high-impact security issues” with Samsung’s Galaxy S6 Edge.

The group detailed why and how they have conducted the research, and why in particular they have used one of Samsung’s recent flagship phones. The team wrote, “Having done some previous research on Google-made Nexus devices running [on the] Android Open-Source Project (AOSP), we wanted to see how different attacking an OEM device would be. In particular, we wanted to see how difficult finding bugs would be, what type of bugs we would find and whether mitigations in AOSP would make finding or exploiting bugs more difficult. We also wanted to see how quickly bugs would be resolved when we reported them. We chose the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge, as it is a recent high-end device with a large number of users.”

One of the major security flaws in the smartphone is the company’s own email client and gallery app. The research suggested that the bloatware installed by the OEMs are both annoying, as well as dangerous.

However, Gizmodo reports that the phone’s biggest security flaws have been fixed by the South Korean industry giant, and that an update issued later this month will resolve smaller bugs.