Pierluigi Paganini
June 11, 2017
Security experts have discovered a critical kernel command line injection vulnerability in the Motorola handsets Moto G4 and Moto G5. Security researchers from Aleph Research Motorola have discovered a critical kernel command line injection flaw in the Motorola handset Moto G4 and Moto G5 models. The flaw affects also handsets running the latest Motorola Android bootloader […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 31, 2017
Experts found a new malware, dubbed Judy malware, in the Play Store, it is designed to infect Android devices and generate false clicks on advertisements. Google is suffering once again from malicious software applications found inside popular apps available on Play store. The new malware – code named “Judy” – is designed to infect Android […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 23, 2017
Hackers demonstrated that it is very easy to bypass the Samsung S8 iris scanner by using a camera, a printer, and a contact lens. Security experts have once against bypassed mobile Biometric system installed on a mobile device, the Samsung S8 model. Hackers used a camera, a printer and a contact lens to bypass the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 21, 2017
Google is rolling out a new protection system called Google Play Protect, it is a machine-learning system to protect Android users. Good news for Android users, Google has introduced another security defense system, called Google Play Protect, to protect the devices running its mobile OS. Google already uses several security measures to protect the smartphone, such as […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 08, 2017
Researchers at Technische Universitat Braunschweig published a study on 200+ Android mobile apps that are listening to your life through ultrasonic beacons. Researchers at Technische Universitat Braunschweig in Germany recently published a finding that over 200 Android mobile applications are listening to your life through ultrasonic beacons. Like digital electronic vampire bats, these apps are checking […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 04, 2017
The company O2-Telefonica in Germany has confirmed to SĂŒddeutsche Zeitung agency that some of its customers suffered cyber heists exploiting the SS7 flaws. Security experts have been warning for years about security vulnerabilities affecting the SS7 protocol widely adopted in mobile communications. SS7, aka Signalling System No. 7, is a set of protocols used in telecommunications ever since the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 30, 2017
Security experts demonstrated that insecure mobile applications leave millions of smartphones at risk of open port attack. A group of security researchers from the University of Michigan ( Yunhan Jack Jia, Qi Alfred Chen, Yikai Lin, Chao Kong, and Prof. Z. Morley Mao) discovered a security hole in hundreds of applications in Google Play Store that could […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 23, 2017
Millions of users looking to get software updates have downloaded an app hiding a spyware called SMSVova through the official Google Play store. Bad news for millions of Android users looking to get software updates, they have been tricked into downloading a spyware called SMSVova through the official Google Play store. Experts at Zscaler discovered […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 13, 2017
A group of researchers has demonstrated that attackers can steal PINs and Passwords capturing data from smartphone sensors. Modern mobile devices are full of sensors (i.e. GPS, Camera, microphone, accelerometer, magnetometer, proximity, gyroscope, pedometer, and NFC) that could be exploited by hackers to gather data about owner’s activities? A group of researchers from Newcastle University demonstrated that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 09, 2017
The researcher Ralf Weinmann revealed that millions of mobile phones and laptops are potentially exposed to attack leveraging baseband zero-days he discovered. The researcher Ralf-Phillip Weinmann, managing director at security firm Comsecuris, has disclosed a zero-day baseband vulnerability affecting Huawei smartphones, laptop WWAN modules, and IoT components. Baseband is firmware used on smartphones to connect to cellular […]
