Mobile

Pierluigi Paganini September 16, 2015
Unlock Android 5.x devices is very easy

The security researcher John Gordon has found an easy way to unlock smartphones running Android 5.0 and 5.1 (Build LMY48M). The security researcher John Gordon has discovered a very simple way to bypass the mobile lock feature implemented on smartphones running Android 5.0 and 5.1 (Build LMY48M). Mechanisms like Password lock, Pattern lock and PIN lock […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 13, 2015
Lockerpin, the first known Android lock-screen ransomware

Lockerpin is the first known Android lock-screen ransomware to set a phone’s PIN lock that is targeting mainly US mobile users. Once again here we are to discuss a new mobile ransomware, this time the malicious Android app dubbed Android/Lockerpin.A locks out victims by changing lock screen PIN until owners pay a $US500 ransom. Android/Lockerpin.A, the […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 12, 2015
Zimperium firm released the Android Stagefright Exploit Code

Zimperium firm released the Android Stagefright Exploit Code, the Android flaw that is threatening the users of the popular Google mobile OS. Experts at Zimperium Mobile Security Labs (zLabs) recently discovered a critical flaw, dubbed Stagefright affecting the Android OS. The experts revealed that the Stagefright flaw (CVE-2015-1538) potentially affects 95% of Android devices running version 2.2 to 5.1 of […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 12, 2015
iOS 9 security by design, but hacker already shows a jailbreak

Apple announced the secure iOS 9 but a popular hacker demonstrated the untethered iOS 9 Jailbreak in a video PoC before its release. Apple announced new security enhancements for its new operating system iOS 9. The new version of the Apple OS, iOS 9, will be available from September 16th on the iPhone, iPad and iPod, according the […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 08, 2015
Adult Player, pornography-focused ransomware takes secret photos of victims

Security firm Zscaler spotted Adult Player, a new malicious pornography-focused ransomware that takes secret photos of victims to blackmail. Security firm Zscaler spotted a new malicious Android app used in a classic extortion scheme to request a ransom to the victims. The malicious app dubbed Adult Player appeared offers pornographic content to its users, but in […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 04, 2015
New singular Android Ransomware relies on the XMPP protocol

A new variant of Android ransomware relies on the instant messaging protocol XMPP to establish a communication with C&C servers. According to security researchers at Check Point Software Technologies a new Android ransomware disguised as a video player app implements a method of communication different from any other similar threat. This Android ransomware is different from […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 01, 2015
MassVet finds unknown malicious apps in app stores in 10 Sec

A group of researchers have developed a method dubbed Mass Vetting (MassVet) to find unknown malicious apps in app stores in 10 Seconds. A group of University researchers has created a new method for detecting malicious apps running on an Android devices called MassVet. MassVet doesn’t use the old method of signatures scanning, instead it compares […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 31, 2015
KeyRaider: iOS Malware targets over 225,000 Apple accounts

PaloAlto and with WeipTech have identified 92 samples of a new iOS malware family in the wild dubbed KeyRaider that compromised over 225,000 Apple accounts. Palo Alto networks announced recently that a new iOS malware called KeyRaider allowed crooks to take over more than 225.000 apple accounts on jailbroken iOS devices. KeyRaider allows the attackers […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 23, 2015
Security Affairs newsletter Round 23 – Best of the week from best sources

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from the best sources free for you in your email box. Dark marketplaces raked from $300,000 to $500,000 a day How to hack a Parrot drone on the fly How BitTorrent could let lone DDoS attackers bring down big sites […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 21, 2015
Apple users are vulnerable to sandbox vulnerability

Experts discovered that the sandbox vulnerability affects all apps that use the managed app configuration setting in devices that run older versions. Kevin Watkins, a security researcher from Appthority, argues that users without iOS 8.4.1 are affected by the sandbox vulnerability, CVE-2015-3269. The flaw affects all apps that use the managed app configuration settings, meaning that […]