The annual global black hat hacking conference will be held on July 27th, information security expert Nitay Artenstein ready to announce in the General Assembly Broadcom (Broadcom) Wi-Fi chip security vulnerabilities. Artenstein claims that the Broadcom chip vulnerability will allow hackers to execute arbitrary programs through remote control, which is expected to spread at least millions of Android and iOS mobile devices worldwide.

The vulnerability is BCM43xx Broadcom Wi-Fi chip family, these products are used in a variety of iPhone models, as well as HTC, LG, Nexus and Samsung and many other brands of Android phones. Despite the complexity of the firmware deployed on the Wi-Fi chip, it is still lacking in security, and an attacker in the range can execute arbitrary code on a Wi-Fi chip. And no user interaction, you can attack.

Artenstein plans to discuss the internal architecture of Wi-Fi chips such as BCM4354, 43358 and 4359 at the Black Hat Conference, and how to execute any program on the application processor for mobile devices.

At present, Wi-Fi has long been the standard configuration on mobile devices, and Broadcom's Wi-Fi chip family is equipped with smart phones, Tablet PC, the most common. Whether it is Nexus 5, Nexus 6 or Nexus 6P, Samsung Galaxy flagship series or iphone, ipad are using the Broadcom chip.

However, Broadcom on April 28, 2016 has been packaged Wi-Fi business to sell to Cypress. According to reports, Cypress Semiconductor and Broadcom announced a final agreement, Cypress will be 550 million US dollars in cash acquisition acquisition of Broadcom's wireless Internet of things business. Under the terms of the agreement, Cypress will acquire Broadcom's Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and ZigBee networking products and related intellectual property, including the WICED brand and its developer ecosystem.If you want to learn more information,please go to omoelec.com.

Previously, Apple and Broadcom were accused of the California Institute of Technology, said its iPhone 5 since the use of Broadcom chip products, including iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch are patent infringement. The California Institute of Technology has accused Broadcom of stolen its coding and decoding techniques used to improve the performance of data streams and applied to the court for compensation and requested a ban on the equipment involved.

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