A critical zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-44068, has been discovered in Samsung mobile processors, allowing threat actors to execute arbitrary code while evading detection through a renamed process. The flaw, affecting Exynos 9820, 9825, 980, 990, 850, and W920 processors, has a CVSS score of 8.1 and was patched in Samsung's October security updates. Google researchers Xingyu Jin and Clement Lecigne identified the vulnerability, warning that it's already being exploited in the wild as part of an exploit chain targeting the camera server process for privilege escalation.