If you have a Samsung phone, you'll want to update it immediately. Samsung just issued an urgent warning about active attacks targeting Galaxy smartphones, like the Samsung Galaxy S25 and Galaxy S25 Edge, and has updated its September security patch to fix the vulnerability ASAP.

The vulnerability impacts devices running Android 13 or newer. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-21043, was reported by WhatsApp, according to Samsung's security blog. Samsung confirmed that it “was notified that an exploit for this issue has existed in the wild.”

It has to do with a flaw in third-party image-parsing library, which could let attackers execute malicious code on Galaxy devices. At this time, there's no telling whether the issue is limited to just WhatsApp or extends to other messenging platforms. Give

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