Pierluigi Paganini
February 27, 2018
Android P, is expected to include a neat feature that prevents apps running in the background from spying on you through the camera or microphone on your cell phone. Do you cover the lens on your webcam to prevent someone from spying on you? You should, and it seems like every security vendor has a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 19, 2018
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai published an interesting post on SIM hijacking highlighted the risks for the end users and their exposure to this illegal practice. In 2017, hackers stole some personal information belonging to T-Mobile customers by exploiting a well-known vulnerability. A video tutorial titled ‘T-Mobile Info Disclosure exploit’ showing how to use the flaw was also published […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 16, 2018
Researchers discovered a new dangerous text bomb that crashes Apple devices, only a single character of the Indian Telugu language could create the chaos. A new ‘text bomb’ threatens Apple devices, just a single character of the Indian alphabet (precisely the Telugu language, a Dravidian language spoken in India by about 70 million people) can crash your device […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 15, 2018
Android Security Bulletin for February 2018 – Google has fixed tens of vulnerabilities for Android OS, including several critical remote code execution (RCE) flaws. The Android Security Bulletin for February 2018 addresses 26 vulnerabilities in the mobile operating system, most of which are elevation of privilege flaws. The 2018-02-01 security patch level fixed 7 vulnerabilities, 6 in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 13, 2018
Security researchers from Trend Micro detected a new variant of the popular AndroRAT Android RAT in the criminal ecosystem. Security experts from Trend Micro reported the availability of a new variant of the popular AndroRAT. The malware was first born in 2012 as a university project, designed as an open-source client/server application to offer remote […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 08, 2018
Researchers from Princeton University have developed an app called PinME to locate and track smartphone without using GPS. The research team led by Prateek Mittal, assistant professor in Princetonâs Department of Electrical Engineering and PinMe paper co-author developed the PinMe application that mines information stored on smartphones that don’t require permissions for access. The data […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 06, 2018
Security researchers at Qihoo 360’s Netlab have spotted a new Android mining botnet that targets devices with ADB interface open. Security researchers at Qihoo 360’s Netlab have spotted a new Android mining botnet over the weekend. The malicious code ADB.Miner targets Android devices by scanning for open ADB debugging interface (port 5555) and infects them with a Monero […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 24, 2018
Experts at security firm Checkmarx discovered two security vulnerabilities in the Tinder mobile apps that could be exploited to spy on users. Security experts at Checkmarx discovered two security vulnerabilities in the Tinder Android and iOS dating applications that could be exploited by an attacker on the same wi-fi network as a target to spy […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 23, 2018
According to a researcher from security firm Predeo, three Sonic apps in the Google Play published by SEGA leak users’ data to uncertified servers. According to a researcher from security firm Predeo, some game applications in the Google Play published by SEGA leak users’ data to uncertified servers. The Android apps are Sonic Dash,  Sonic the Hedgehog⢠Classic, and Sonic […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 22, 2018
Google has awarded a record $112,500 to a security researcher for reporting an exploit chain that could be used to hack Pixel smartphones. Last week the Google disclosed the technical details of the exploit chain that was devised in August 2017 by the Guang Gong from Alpha Team at Qihoo 360 Technology. The exploit chain triggers two […]
