A serious security flaw has been discovered in the Marvell 88W8897A Wi-Fi chip, which is included in a number of mainstream devices.<\/p>\n
Security firm Embedi<\/a><\/strong> discovered a number of vulnerabilities in the chip’s firmware, and drew attention to the most serious flaw which allows devices to be compromised without any interaction from the owner.<\/p>\n “This vulnerability can be triggered without user interaction during the scanning for available networks,” Embedi stated.<\/p>\n “This procedure is launched every 5 minutes regardless of a device being connected to some Wi-Fi network or not.”<\/p>\n This vulnerability essentially allows hackers to compromise a device just after it has been turned on, without the owner realising they have been targeted.<\/p>\n The affected Marvell chip is implemented in various devices, including Samsung Chromebooks, Microsoft Surface laptops, Valve’s Steam Link, and PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles.<\/p>\n A serious security flaw has been discovered in a Marvell Wi-Fi chip, which is included in a number of mainstream devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":229919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[56904,47376,15511,56902],"class_list":["post-293150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-embedi","tag-marvell","tag-security-flaw","tag-wi-fi-chip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":293158,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293150\/revisions\/293158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0Collection 1 data breach leaks 773 million records<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"