Google Pixel phones pwned in zero-click attacks
The Register reached out to Google for more details about the scope of exploitation, and how attackers are exploiting the flaw and what they can achieve. REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/c'); }); We do know, however, that these types of zero-click attacks are frequently used by commercial spyware makers to surveil targeted individuals. On Wednesday, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the CVE to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog and gave federal agencies just three days - until September 19 - to patch the flaw.
- ▪The Register reached out to Google for more details about the scope of exploitation, and how attackers are exploiting the flaw and what they can achieve.
- ▪REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/c'); }); We do know, however, that these types of zero-click attacks are frequently used by commercial spyware makers to surveil targeted individuals.
- ▪On Wednesday, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the CVE to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog and gave federal agencies just three days - until September 19 - to patch the flaw.
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| Original publisher | The Register |
| Canonical URL | https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/09/16/google-pixel-phones-pwned-in-zero-click-attacks/5296936 |
| Publication time | Wed, 16 Sep 2026 19:56:31 +0200 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-16T20:08:41.594Z |
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| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | UgheAP5vS44G · 2 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
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| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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