The company left the domain to expire and never renewed.
This is an open invitation to hackers to compromise millions of gear.
Samsung Users!
S Suggest completely depends upon an Internet domain which is calledssuggest.com.
Samsung had discontinued the app in 2014 because nobody was using it.
However, the company left the domain to expire and never renewed.
The app keeps trying to connect to the domain, even if the app was disabled on the equipment.
According toJoao Gouveia, Security researcher, this is an open invitation to hackers to compromise millions of unit.
Let me tell you what makes this thing worse is, S Suggest app needed advanced privileges.
So, hackers can use the domain to control millions of Samsung devices.
Hackers can install apps, extract data and can read & steal messages or emails.
The researcher warns Samsung to look into the problem and block domains that it discontinues.
Right now it looks like, the software update could be the easiest way to deal with the issue.
Samsung hasnt said anything regarding this issue.
So, what do you think about this?
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