Broadcom chip bug opened 1 billion phones to a Wi-Fi-hopping worm attack

Enlarge (credit: Cheon Fong Liew) LAS VEGAS—It’s not often that a security researcher devises an attack that can unleash a self-replicating attack which, with no user interaction, threatens 1 billion smartphones. But that’s just what Nitay Artenstein of Exodus Intelligence did in a feat that affected both iOS and Android devices. At the Black Hat […]