Pierluigi Paganini
September 22, 2015
Researchers from Citizen Lab and German security firm Cure53 analyzed the Govt child monitoring app Smart Sheriff discovered that it is full of bugs. It’s curious, thinking to a child monitoring app you imagine a solution that can protect your children, instead the situation could be really different. Researchers with the Canadian watchdog group Citizen Lab have […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 21, 2015
Researchers have spotted the first large-scale attack on Apple Store, attackers used XcodeGhost designed to inject malicious code into iOS and OS X apps. Apple announced yesterday it is cleaning up the official iOS App Store to remove malicious iPhone and iPad applications, the company confirmed that this is the first large-scale attack on the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 17, 2015
A new evil vulnerability affecting the AirDrop service could be exploited by attackers to silently infect iPhones and Apple Macs. Versions prior to the latest Apple OS version, the newborn iOS 9, are affected by a serious AirDrop Bug. The AirDrop Bug could be exploited by hackers to take full control of Apple iPhone or Mac machines. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 16, 2015
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 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 PINÂ until owners pay a $US500 ransom. Android/Lockerpin.A, the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 12, 2015
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
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
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
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
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 doesnât use the old method of signatures scanning, instead it compares […]
