ByDavey Winder,
Senior Contributor.
It’s not the first time that Samsung’s flagship Galaxy series of smartphones has been hacked, and I’m pretty certain it won’t be the last. The latest hacking incident is for the Samsung Galaxy S25, which has succumbed to elite hackers using a total of five zero-day vulnerabilities in the exploit chain. Here’s everything we know about the newly confirmed smartphone hack.
The second 24 hours of the three-day hacking frenzy that its Pwn2Own Ireland 2025 has come to a conclusion, and Samsung has been the headline victim with its flagship Galaxy S25 smartphone falling victim to a collaboration between Mobile Hacking Lab and Summoning Team hackers. Ken Gannon and Dimitrios Valsamaras, being the respective elite hackers involved, achieved “code execution via a chain of 5 vulnerabilities” on a Samsung Galaxy S25, according to Valsamaras. As the hacker also said, “grateful we found it before the bad guys did.” And that’s the takeaway here: Pwn2Own hackers are the good folk, finding zero-day vulnerabilities, proving them by way of an exploit under timed competition conditions, and then handing over everything they have got to the vendor. Sure, there’s payment involved, and so there should be. In this case, a total of $50,000 was shared between the team of two. Which is small fry compared to the total of $2,000,000, including the largest ever single prize for a 0-click in WhatsApp of $1,000,000, up for grabs at the event.
