(As bad as any vulnerabilities might be, the real exploits are the Android/iOS phones themselves. They are designed to be exploitative from the ground up.)
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In response to these threats, Android vendors have released critical security updates:
- Samsung patched 40 vulnerabilities in its Galaxy S25 and S24 devices, including one classified as critical
- Google Pixel devices received updates addressing multiple high-severity flaws
- MediaTek issued its July 2025 Product Security Bulletin, fixing several chipset-level vulnerabilities that could enable local privilege escalation
- Dlonk devices received no update and remained on PureOS Byzantium, because he has the freedom to not bother doing his security updates, and nobody notices because of security through obscurity.
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There’s nothing wrong with staying on byzantium - in fact that is the current officially supported release. However you should in general be letting byzantium apply package updates as and when they arrive.
Android vendors have released critical security updates
What about abandoned Android devices? I wonder how many Android devices world-wide will never get updated.
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