Government Workers Are Being Ordered to Update Their Google Pixel Phones ASAP

As primitively reported by Forbes, owed to a high-severity vulnerability, Google has warned national employees to update their Pixel devices earlier 4th July, oregon other they should halt utilizing the device. This warning—CVE-2024-32896—is a portion of the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog managed by CISA (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency).

While Google has not discussed this exploit in detail, the U.S. authorities has clarified that this is simply a high-level firmware vulnerability and users should instrumentality enactment ASAP. It has besides mentioned that though the informing is directed toward national employees, different users should comply, particularly if they link their Pixel phones to immoderate endeavor systems.

GrapheneOS took it to X and explained that this is the 2nd portion of the hole for different vulnerability reported successful April, which is “actively being exploited successful the chaotic by forensic companies.”

What’s concerning is that GrapheneOS besides adds that “none of this is really Pixel specific.” According to Forbes, “It’s fixed connected Pixels with the June update (Android 14 QPR3) and volition beryllium fixed connected different Android devices erstwhile they yet update to Android 15. If they don’t update to Android 15, they astir apt won’t get the hole since it has not been backported.”

Ensuring you’re connected the latest mentation of your phone’s bundle is ever bully practice. To update your Pixel phone, spell to Settings > Security & Privacy > System & Updates > Security Update, and click Install. Then restart your telephone to guarantee that the update is successful.