Over the Air, Under the Radar: Attacking and Securing the Pixel Modem

To ensure Google Pixel devices are always at their most secure, the Android Red Team continuously attacks the riskiest areas of the phone. This allows us to proactively get ahead of bugs and protect the phone, before it’s even shipped to users. The modem — or baseband — is a high risk, fundamental smartphone component because it accepts data from untrusted remote sources (over the air radio, cell tower, etc.). A vulnerability in the modem can lead to many kinds of remote compromises on a phone.... By Xiling Gong , Farzan Karimi , Eugene Rodionov , Xuan Xing Full Abstract and Presentation Materials: #over-the-air-under-the-radar-attacking-and-securing-the-pixel-modem-33009