During the Black Hat London presentation “Abusing Android Apps and Gaining Remote Code Execution,” NowSecure mobile security researcher Ryan Welton revealed that over 600 million Samsung mobile devices are vulnerable to an attack that is “highly reliable, completely silent, and affects all devices.”

If you have a Samsung Galaxy phone, then you have the default Swift keyboard installed and that puts you at risk due to a significant security flaw in the keyboard. The Swift keyboard comes pre-installed on Samsung mobile devices and it cannot be uninstalled or even disabled. Even if you don’t use Samsung’s default keyboard, “it can still be exploited.”

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