Samsung addresses critical vulnerability affecting millions of users

In September 2025, Samsung announced that it had released an emergency update to address a serious memory vulnerability impacting its Galaxy devices running Android 13 or newer. The vulnerability, identified as CVE-2025-21043, was reported by WhatsApp and poses a risk of exploitation by attackers aiming to run malicious code on users' devices. With over three billion users worldwide, WhatsApp's widespread installation on Galaxy phones highlighted the vast attack surface and the urgency of the updates. Samsung noted that it was alerted to the existence of an exploit that had already been observed in the wild, leading to immediate action to safeguard user data.