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Home > Mobile > Qualcomm chip vulnerability allows hackers to steal data from Androids

Qualcomm chip vulnerability allows hackers to steal data from Androids


Erdem Yasar Erdem Yasar
November 15, 2019
1 min read
Qualcomm chip vulnerability allows hackers to steal data from Androids

Millions of Android smartphones and tablets using Qualcomm chipsets are vulnerable to new serious attacks.

According to a report published by the cybersecurity firm CheckPoint, the vulnerabilities found in the Qualcomm chipsets, that are used in hundreds of million Android devices, can allow attackers to steal data that is stored in a secure area. The flaw resides in Qualcomm’s Secure Execution Environment (QSEE), and implementation of Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) which is a part of ARM TrustZone technology.

Passwords, private encryption keys, and banking credentials

QSEE is a secure part of the hardware isolated from the rest of the processor to protect the sensitive information for executing Trusted Applications. Shortly, QSEE mostly contains private encryption keys, passwords, and online banking credentials. Researchers claim that attackers can execute trusted apps in Normal World, load patched trusted app into the SQEE, bypass Qualcomm’s Chain of Trust, adapt the trusted app for running on a device of another manufacturer, and more.

Checkpoint also claims: “Security research in TEE implementations is highly difficult due to the large amount of proprietary code. However, as we will see later, a trusted app is a good target for fuzzing-based research. The command handler of a trusted app expects to receive a data blob from the Normal world which will then be parsed and used according to the app’s purpose and the requested command. Each trusted app can support hundreds of possible external commands.” You can read more at Checkpoint’s blog post.

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Erdem Yasar is a news editor at Cloud7 News. Erdem started his career by writing video game reviews in 2007 for PC World magazine while he was studying computer engineering. In the following years, he focused on software development with various programming languages. After his graduation, he continued to work as an editor for several major tech-related websites and magazines. During the 2010s, Erdem Yasar shifted his focus to cloud computing, hosting, and data centers as they were becoming more popular topics in the tech industry. Erdem Yasar also worked with various industry-leading tech companies as a content creator by writing blog posts and other articles. Prior to his role at Cloud7 News, Erdem was the managing editor of T3 Magazine.

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