Pierluigi Paganini
May 06, 2015
Canadian mobile users were targeted by the latest variant of the Koler Android mobile ransomware after visiting websites proposing adult content. Once again, visitors of websites proposing adult content are targeted by cyber criminals. Last week a malvertising campaign hit visitors of the adult website XHamster, now Canadian Internet users victims were targeted by a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 26, 2015
Security researchers at FireEye have discovered a vulnerability in the Samsung Galaxy S5 that allows hackers to clone fingerprints. Samsung Galaxy S5 and other âunnamed Android devicesâ could leak user fingerprints to hackers that can clone them. According to security experts at FireEye, although Samsung implements encryption mechanism to protect user fingerprints archived on the mobile […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 23, 2015
Security researchers discovered a bug in WiFi SSID management that could be exploited by hackers to crash Android, Windows, Linux systems or hack them. In an e-mail published on the Open Source Software Security (oss-security) mailing list, a user reported a serious vulnerability that could allow attackers to crash devices or even potentially inject malware […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 09, 2015
A team or researchers sponsored by the US DARPA has developed a new innovative tool to improve the detection of Android malware. The blue team of DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) backed up by Iowa State University researchers are developing a tool that will help with Android malware analysis. The features used by the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 04, 2015
Android presented its Security State of the Union 2014 and confirmed that the number of infections have been halved in a year due to Google’s improvements. Google confirmed that malware infections have been halved in a year due to  security upgrades for the Android mobile platform. Android security engineer Adrian Ludwig explained in a blog post that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 30, 2015
A new study conducted by researchers at the Carnegie Mellon University revealed that dozens of mobile apps collect extensive location data. A new study conducted by researchers at the Carnegie Mellon University revealed that a number of Android mobile apps collects geolocation data related to the users. According to the Wall Street Journal, the researchers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 26, 2015
According to Trend Micro, crooks in Asia are conducting the sextortion practice to the next level, including the used of mobile malware to get huge profits. Trend Micro released a new report to bring to light a criminal activity known as sextortion. “Sextortion is a means of coercing cybercrime victims to perform sexual favors or […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 25, 2015
A security researcher has discovered a reflected filename download vulnerability affecting the Instagram API that could be exploited to share malicious links. The security researcher David Sopas from WebSegura has discovered a serious vulnerability in the Instagram APIÂ that could be exploited by hackers to post a link to a web resource they manage. By exploiting […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 25, 2015
Experts at Palo Alto Networks discovered the Installer Hijacking vulnerability that exposes half of Android users to attack via Installation Vulnerability. The security researcher Zhi Xu from Palo Alto Networks discovered a critical vulnerability, dubbed Android Installer Hijacking, affecting the Android PackageInstaller system service. By exploiting the flaw, an attacker can gain unlimited permissions on compromised smartphone and data […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 19, 2015
Despite principal vendors have released updates to fix the FREAK vulnerability many mobile apps for Android and Apple iOS are still vulnerable. Early March, security experts discovered a critical vulnerability codenamed FREAK (CVE-2015-0204), also known as Factoring Attack on RSA-EXPORT Keys, which could be exploited by threat actors to run man-in-the-middle attacks on encrypted traffic when Internet users visited […]
