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Android gets patches for Qualcomm zero-day exploited in attacks
Google has released security updates to patch 129 Android security vulnerabilities, including an actively exploited zero-day flaw in a Qualcomm display component. “There are indications that CVE-2026-21385 may be under limited, targeted exploitation,” the company said on Monday in its March 2025 Android Security Bulletin. While Google didn’t provide any further information on the attacks currently targeting […]
Leaked Apple iPad Pro M5 benchmark shows massive improvements
A new leaked benchmark shows Apple‘s alleged M5 chip on an iPad, and it’s almost as fast as a desktop CPU. We know that Apple is really good at designing chips. Most of its chips have always outperformed competitors, including Intel and Qualcomm. The M5 is no exception. As spotted on Geekbench, an alleged benchmark of an […]
Android gets patches for Qualcomm flaws exploited in attacks
Google has released security patches for six vulnerabilities in Android’s August 2025 security update, including two Qualcomm flaws exploited in targeted attacks. The two security bugs, tracked as CVE-2025-21479 and CVE-2025-27038, were reported through the Google Android Security team in late January 2025. The first is a Graphics framework incorrect authorization weakness that can lead to memory corruption […]
Qualcomm fixes three Adreno GPU zero-days exploited in attacks
Qualcomm has released security patches for three zero-day vulnerabilities in the Adreno Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) driver that impact dozens of chipsets and are actively exploited in targeted attacks. The company says two critical flaws (tracked as CVE-2025-21479 and CVE-2025-21480) were reported through the Google Android Security team in late January, and a third high-severity vulnerability (CVE-2025-27038) was […]
New Android NoviSpy spyware linked to Qualcomm zero-day bugs
The Serbian government exploited Qualcomm zero-days to unlock and infect Android devices with a new spyware named ‘NoviSpy,’ used to spy on activists, journalists, and protestors. One of the Qualcomm flaws linked to the attacks is CVE-2024-43047, which was marked as an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability by Google Project Zero in October 2024 and received a fix on Android in […]
Qualcomm patches high-severity zero-day exploited in attacks
Qualcomm has released security patches for a zero-day vulnerability in the Digital Signal Processor (DSP) service that impacts dozens of chipsets. The security flaw (CVE-2024-43047) was reported by Google Project Zero’s Seth Jenkins and Amnesty International Security Lab’s Conghui Wang, and it is caused by a use-after-free weakness that can lead to memory corruption when […]
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 Orders Delayed, Costs Higher Than Gen 3
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 has been hinted by a company executive to be more expensive than the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 as the transition to custom Oryon cores is not a ‘chump change’ endeavor. Unfortunately, it is difficult to calculate how pricey the upcoming SoC will be because, as per the latest rumor, smartphone […]