Google says some Pixel phone owners were hacked in zero-day attacks
📍 Where it landed
Google confirmed that a zero‑click modem flaw had been exploited in limited, targeted attacks on certain Pixel phones and urged owners to install the urgent software update. The company released a patch that fixed the actively exploited vulnerability, and coverage of the issue quieted after the remediation.
Epilogue added 31m ago, after coverage quieted.
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Google says some Pixel phone owners were hacked in zero-day attacks TechCrunch · 4d ago broke it first
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