India, Nov. 10 -- It's come to light that a stealthy cyber espionage campaign managed to hack Samsung Galaxy phones by using dodgy picture files that were infected with malware. The spyware in question is called Landfall, and it exploited a weakness in an image processing library used by Samsung to slip past security with ease, even when the images were opened via WhatsApp. The researchers say this all went down and was operating for months before the first infected pics were spotted and a fix was rolled out.

The following section pulls together all the confirmed facts from the report & is based on the info provided by the team of researchers & the funding agencies. Every technical nitty-gritty & timeline below comes straight from the re...