Google's team of elite hackers at Project Zero has discovered 11 "high-impact" security flaws in Samsung's Galaxy S6 Edge.<br />Samsung's flagship device is just the latest target in the group's sights.<br />As well as having probed several antivirus products and even Android itself, they had previously poked around in Windows and found serious bugs.<br />The most significant of the 11 bugs affecting the Galaxy S6 Edge was spotted by Project Zero researcher Mark Brand, who in late July told Samsung about a directory traversal bug in the device's WifiHs20UtilityService.<br />The service scans for a zip file in /sdcard/Download/cred.<br />zip and unzips it.<br />What makes it dangerous is that the "file-write vulnerability can be triggered by browsing to a website without any user interaction", Google notes in the Project Zero bug database.
