Pierluigi Paganini
July 06, 2018
Israeli military intelligence accused Hamas operatives of creating tainted apps to lure soldiers into downloading spyware onto their phones. According to a report published by the Israeli military, Hamas hackers are attempting to lure Israel Defence Forces (IDF) soldiers into installing tainted apps on their devices. Israeli military already blamed Hamas of similar attacks, but this […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 03, 2018
This week researchers demonstrated that most Android phones released since 2012 are still vulnerable to the RAMpage attack. In 2012, security researchers identified a bug in modern DRAM (dynamic random access memory) chips that could lead to memory corruption. In 2015, Google Project Zero researchers demonstrated “rowhammer“, a working exploit of this attack providing privilege […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 03, 2018
Some Samsung devices are randomly sending photos taken with the camera to contacts in the address book without permission. Do you have a Samsung smartphone? There is something you need to know. Some devices are randomly sending photos taken with the camera to contacts in the address book without permission. The problem affected Galaxy S9 and S9+ […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 01, 2018
Security issues in the LTE mobile device standard could be exploited by persistent attackers to spy on users’ cellular networks and hijack data traffic. A team of from Ruhr-UniversitĂ€t Bochum and New York University Abu Dhabi has discovered some security issues in the LTE mobile device standard that could be exploited by persistent attackers (i.e. intelligence […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 26, 2018
Security Researchers demonstrated how a “poisoned” cellphone battery in smartphones can be leveraged to “infer characters typed on a touchscreen We’ve heard about stealing information through blinking hard drive lights and computer speakers but would you believe the battery in your cell phone can also leak potentially sensitive information? Researchers at Technion Center for Security Science and Technology (CSST), Hebrew […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 24, 2018
A security researcher has devised a method to brute force a passcode on every Apple iPhone or iPad, even the up-to-date ones. Since iOS 8Â rolled out in 2014, iPhone and iPad devices are protected with encryption, without providing passcode it is quite impossible to unlock the device. If the user enters more than 10 times […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 19, 2018
Malware researchers from ESET have discovered a new strain of Android RAT, tracked as HeroRat, that leverages Telegram protocol for command and control, and data exfiltration. HeroRat isn’t the first malware abusing Telegram protocol, past investigation reported similar threats like TeleRAT and IRRAT. The new RAT has been in the wild at least since August 2017 and in March […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 19, 2018
Fortnite is currently the most popular game, crooks are attempting to exploit the interest in forthcoming Fortnite Android to infect millions of fans. No doubt, Fortnite is currently the most popular game, it is a co-op sandbox survival game developed by Epic Games and People Can Fly. The game was released as a paid-for early access title […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 18, 2018
A new crypto mining malicious code dubbed ADB.miner is targeting Android-based devices Amazon Fire TV and Fire Stick. Recently, security experts spotted the crypto mining malware ADB.miner (Android.CoinMine.15) targeting Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick devices. The malicious code is active at least since February when researchers at Qihoo 360âs Netlab have spotted the Android mining botnet […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 18, 2018
Apple introduced a new feature in the latest beta versions of iOS, dubbed USB Restricted Mode, to improve the security of a locked device, Apple is implementing a new feature dubbed USB Restricted Mode to improve the security of its device, it is going to lock down the iPhoneâs data port to avoid unauthorized access, […]
