“A user can search for their specific firmware in the “Download Firmware” section of the app. It offers firmware “downloads” locked behind a paywall, hence the app author can increase the profitability of his app. He detailed that the app is nothing but a privacy-invasive app designed to generate for-profit adverts for the thread author, while it claims to be an app that can upgrade a Samsung device’s firmware. The existence of the fake Update for Samsung app was first reported by a CSIS Security Group security researcher named Aleksejs Kuprins in a blog post. By default, new Samsung devices have locked bootloaders and can only be flashed using Samsung official upgrade tool as mentioned above. However, such app cannot perform the flashing of new Android ROM, given such capability can only be established by a root-level app. Updates for Samsung is nothing but an adware app, disguised and claims for being an official app for updating Samsung-branded Android device. Unofficially through custom-roms downloaded from.
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