Mobile

Pierluigi Paganini October 25, 2016
Millions of Android smartphones exposed to new Drammer Android attack

A new method of attack dubbed DRAMMER could be exploited to gain ‘root’ access to millions of Android smartphones and take control of affected devices. Earlier last year, security researchers from Google’s Project Zero outlined a way to hijack the computers running Linux by abusing a design flaw in the memory and gaining higher kernel privileges on the system. […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 18, 2016
The ‘Sin’ Card: How criminals unlocked a stolen iPhone 6S

Even if you have an iPhone 6S protected by a 6 digits password plus the touch ID fingerprint it is possible to unlock it. 1. Introduction You have an iPhone 6S protected by a 6 digits password plus the touch ID fingerprint and you may think that nobody can unlock it without the code, right? […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 15, 2016
Android Acecard banking trojan asks users for selfie with an ID card

Experts discovered a new variant of the Android Acecard banking trojan that asks victims to take a selfie while they are holding an ID card. The inventiveness of the criminals is a never ending pit. Recently, a number of organizations announced a new authentication method based on the selfies. For example, HSBC customers can open […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 05, 2016
WiFox mobile app shows names and passwords for Wi-Fi airports networks worldwide

The WiFox mobile app was designed as a huge container of network names and passwords for Wi-Fi airports networks worldwide. Do you travel a lot? Probably you have already read about WiFox, it is a legitimate Android/iOS mobile app that includes indications of thousands of airport Wi-Fi networks and their passwords. We have spoken several times about the […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 29, 2016
CatchApp system can spy on WhatsApp encrypted communications from a backpack

The Israeli surveillance firm Wintego is offering for sale the system called CatchApp that is able to hack WhatsApp encrypted communications. The Israeli surveillance firm Wintego is offering for sale a system that is able to hack WhatsApp encrypted communications from mobile devices within close proximity of a hidden Wi-Fi hacking device in a backpack. The news has been […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 29, 2016
Why Apple logs your iMessage contacts and other metadata?

Every time you type a number to start an iMessage conversation on your iPhone, Apple logs your message contacts and other metadata. In January 2015, experts claimed that Apple is not able to read messages sent between devices through iMessages, but reported that the company but it is still able to access data in the backups. […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 25, 2016
Pippa Middleton private photos stolen in an Apple iCloud hack

In what could be another serious celebrity hack, 3,000 photos have been stolen from Pippa Middleton ’s account and they are being offered for sale. The UK Police is investigating the Pippa Middleton iCloud hack and consequent theft of private photos. According to The Sun newspaper the stolen photos were offered for sale, it seems that someone had […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 24, 2016
Cracking Apple iOS 10 Backup Encryption is now 2,500 times faster

Experts from Elcomsoft discovered a new vector of attack to access password-protected local backups produced by iOS 10 devices. According to security experts from the computer forensics company Elcomsoft, Apple has weakened the backup security protection of its recently-issued iOS 10 skipping certain security checks. This means that hackers could easily crack password protection used […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 23, 2016
Young hacker Luca Todesco announced the iPhone 7 jailbreak

The popular hacker Luca Todesco (aka @qwertyoruiopz) has announced the existence of the iPhone 7 jailbreak for devices running iOS 10. Only a few hours, this is the time spent by the popular hacker Luca Todesco (aka @qwertyoruiopz) to jailbreak the new and secure iPhone 7. The iPhone 7 was launched by Apple a few days ago and of […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 21, 2016
Experts found apps in Google Play serving the Overseer malware to overseas travelers

Google has removed from the Google Play store four apps trojanized with the Overseer malware to target overseas travelers seeking embassy information. Google has removed from the official Google Play store four trojanized apps that targeted overseas travelers seeking embassy information and news for specific European countries. Three apps were named “Embassy”, “European News”, “Russian […]