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Pierluigi Paganini November 11, 2022

Long-running surveillance campaigns target Uyghurs with BadBazaar and MOONSHINE spyware

Lookout researchers discovered two long-running surveillance campaigns targeting the ethnic minority Uyghurs. Researchers from mobile security firm Lookout uncovered two long-running surveillance campaigns targeting the Uyghurs minority. The threat actors behind the campaigns used two Android spyware to spy on the victims and steal sensitive information. The campaigns involved a new piece of malware called […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 11, 2022

Researcher received a $70k award for a Google Pixel lock screen bypass

Google fixed a high-severity security bug affecting all Pixel smartphones that can allow attackers to unlock the devices. Google has addressed a high-severity security bug, tracked as CVE-2022-20465, affecting all Pixel smartphones that could be exploited to unlock the devices. The Google Pixel Lock Screen Bypass was reported by security researcher David Schütz that was […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 09, 2022

Surveillance vendor exploited Samsung phone zero-days

Google Project Zero researchers reported that a surveillance vendor is using three Samsung phone zero-day exploits. Google Project Zero disclosed three Samsung phone vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2021-25337, CVE-2021-25369 and CVE-2021-25370, that have been exploited by a surveillance company. The three issues are: The researchers pointed out that the surveillance firm included in its spyware the […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 03, 2022

Updated TikTok Privacy Policy confirms that Chinese staff can access European users’ data

TikTok updated its privacy policy for European Economic Area (“EEA”) and confirmed that its Chinese staff can access their users’ data. The short-form video-sharing service TikTok updated its privacy policy for European Economic Area (“EEA”), the UK, and Switzerland and confirmed that its users’ data can be accessed by its personnel, including Chinese employees. European user data […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 01, 2022

Samsung Galaxy Store flaw could have allowed installing malicious apps on target devices

A security flaw in the Galaxy Store app for Samsung devices could have potentially allowed remote command execution on affected phones. A now-patched vulnerability in the Galaxy Store app for Samsung devices could have potentially triggered remote command execution on affected phones. The flaw is a cross-site scripting (XSS) bug that can be triggered when […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 31, 2022

Malicious dropper apps on Play Store totaled 30.000+ installations

ThreatFabric researchers discovered five malicious dropper apps on Google Play Store with more than 130,000 downloads. Researchers at ThreatFabric have discovered five malicious dropper apps on the official Google Play Store. The malicious dropper apps are designed to deliver banking trojans, such as SharkBot and Vultur, that already totaled over 130,000 installations. “Droppers on Google Play went […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 30, 2022

Former British Prime Minister Liz Truss ‘s phone was allegedly hacked by Russian spies

According to the Daily Mail, Former British Prime Minister Liz Truss ‘s personal phone was hacked by Russian spies. The personal mobile phone of British Prime Minister Liz Truss was hacked by cyber spies suspected of working for the Kremlin, the Daily Mail reported. According to the British tabloid, the cyber-spies are believed to have […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 27, 2022

SiriSpy flaw allows eavesdropping on users’ conversations with Siri

SiriSpy is a vulnerability affecting Apple iOS and macOS that allowed apps to eavesdrop on users’ conversations with Siri. SiriSpy is a now-patched vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-32946, in Apple’s iOS and macOS that could have potentially allowed any app with access to Bluetooth to eavesdrop on conversations with Siri and audio. “An app may be […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 24, 2022

Apple fixed the ninth actively exploited zero-day this year

Apple released security updates that addressed the ninth zero-day vulnerability actively exploited in the wild since the start of the year. Apple has addressed the ninth zero-day vulnerability exploited in attacks in the wild since the start of the year. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-42827, is an out-of-bounds write issue that can be exploited by an attacker to […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 24, 2022

Malicious Clicker apps in Google Play have 20M+ installs

Researchers discovered 16 malicious clicker apps in the official Google Play store that were downloaded by 20M+ users. Security researchers at McAfee have discovered 16 malicious clicker apps available in the official Google Play store that were installed more than 20 million times. One of these apps, called DxClean, has more than five million times […]

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Long-running surveillance campaigns target Uyghurs with BadBazaar and MOONSHINE spyware

Researcher received a $70k award for a Google Pixel lock screen bypass

Surveillance vendor exploited Samsung phone zero-days

Updated TikTok Privacy Policy confirms that Chinese staff can access European users’ data

Samsung Galaxy Store flaw could have allowed installing malicious apps on target devices

Malicious dropper apps on Play Store totaled 30.000+ installations

Former British Prime Minister Liz Truss ‘s phone was allegedly hacked by Russian spies

SiriSpy flaw allows eavesdropping on users’ conversations with Siri

Apple fixed the ninth actively exploited zero-day this year

Malicious Clicker apps in Google Play have 20M+ installs

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