Pierluigi Paganini
January 16, 2020
Security experts from Sophos discovered 25 Android apps on the official Google Play that were involved in financial fraud, 600 million affected. Security researchers from Sophos discovered a set of so-called fleeceware apps that have been installed by more than 600 million Android users. Fleeceware apps are malicious applications uploaded to the official Google Play […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 12, 2020
Google revealed it successfully removed more than 1,700 apps from the Play Store over the past three years that had been infected with the Joker malware. Google provided technical details of its activity against the Joker malware (aka Bread) operation during the last few years. The Joker malware is a malicious code camouflaged as a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 08, 2020
A flaw in the popular TikTok app could allow attackers to hijack any user account just by knowing the mobile number of the victim. Security experts from CheckPoint have discovered a critical vulnerability in the popular TikTok app that could be exploited by a remote attacker to hijack any user account just by knowing the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 07, 2020
Security experts have found a malicious app in the Google Play that exploits the recently patched CVE-2019-2215 zero-day vulnerability. Earlier October, Google Project Zero researchers Maddie Stone publicly disclosed a zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-2215, in Android. Maddie Stone published technical details and a proof-of-concept exploit for the high-severity security vulnerability, seven days after she reported it to the colleagues […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 24, 2019
A popular mobile app in the Middle East called ToTok has been removed from both Apple and Google’s online stores because it was a spy tool. According to a report published by the New York Times, the popular app ToTok was used by the UAE government as a surveillance tool. It has been removed from […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 20, 2019
Italian parliamentary security committee Copasir said that Italy should consider preventing Huawei and ZTE from taking part in the development of 5G networks. The Italian parliamentary security committee Copasir (Parliamentary Committee for the Security of the Republic) said that the Government should consider preventing Chinese telecoms companies Huawei and ZTE from participating in the development […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 17, 2019
WhatsApp fixed a severe bug that could have allowed a malicious group member to crash the messaging app for all members of the same group. WhatsApp addressed a severe vulnerability that could have allowed a malicious group member to crash the messaging app for all members of the same group. An attacker could trigger the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 14, 2019
A malvertising campaign that involved more than 100 publisher websites targeted iPhone users to deliver the Smart Krampus-3PC Malware. According to The Media Trust’s Digital Security & Operations (DSO) team, iPhone users have been targeted by a malvertising campaign that has impacted more than 100 publisher websites, including online newspapers and international weekly news magazines. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 12, 2019
This week, Apple addressed a flaw that can be exploited to trigger a DoS condition (AirDoS) iPhones and iPads by forcing them to continuously display a popup message. The denial-of-service (DoS) attack was discovered by The security researcher Kishan Bagaria devised a DoS attack dubbed the AirDoS that works against iPhone, iPad, Mac and iPod. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 09, 2019
Google addressed a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-2232, that could trigger a permanent denial of service (DoS) condition in Android. Google released December 2019 security updates for its Android mobile OS that addressed several flaws, including a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-2232, that could result in a permanent denial of service (DoS). Google addressed more […]
