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The South Korean tech giant, Samsung is battling with difficult times to promote its brand and regains customer goodwill after Galaxy Note 7 fiasco. Right now, it is trying to clean the bugs by providing adequate software patches to its flagship product-Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge.

The software patches being offered now are likely to thwart low and medium risk malware in aforesaid devices as per IBTimes. The November software patch will restore the functionality of the devices to its full potential, thanks to the researcher Gal Beniamini of Google Project Zero and others, who warned Samsung & Google well ahead of another meltdown of a flagship product.

Google has published in its Android security bulletin in November about the critical vulnerability of the Samsung Galaxy S7 & S7 edge devices. It has identified 14 vulnerabilities to improve the security of these devices. The bulletin states that a potentially remote code execution via numerous ways through email, web browser, and media files is very much possible. The November update on devices will disarm all the potential risks. However, Google dismissed any such incidents being reported by customers.  

According to Sammobile, the software patch is already released on factory unlocked devices in the Europe. Further, the software patch is to be rolled out in the US and other countries in a couple of weeks.

Google has already released On-the-Air (OTA) update to Samsung Galaxy S7 & S7 Edge smartphones. Users can check it manually if they have received it or not. If not, they have to wait for the software notification on their phone to update.

T-mobile is the first network which has already started pushing for this new update on Samsung smartphones. The new software version G930TUVU4APK1 and G935TUVU4APK1 are being released for Galaxy S7 & S7 Edge devices respectively with a size of over 80MB.

After the software patch, Samsung users may feel secured for now until new security risks appear in public domain. Stay tuned for more updates from us!