Mobile

Pierluigi Paganini February 10, 2015
Volume License Trojan Chanitor targets enterprises

Cisco experts discovered a phishing campaign that is spreading fake Volume License Trojan Chanitor to corporate users and is able to evade sandboxes. A few weeks ago, multiple Cisco Managed Threat Defense (MTD) customers received an email that appeared as sent by the Microsoft Volume Licensing Service Center (VLSC), which contains a link to login to the […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 09, 2015
WhatsSpy Public tool can spy on Whatsapp users

WhatsSpy Public is a web-based tool that could allow an attacker to access Whatsapp user information related to his activity. WhatsSpy Public is a web-based tool created by Maikel Zweerink that can trace the moves of a WhatsApp user. WhatsSpy is able to display user information in a friendly dashboard that includes events being displayed […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 07, 2015
11 percent of mobile banking apps includes harmful code

A recent study published by RiskIQ security firm revealed that more than 11 percent of mobile banking apps includes harmful code. With the rapid spread of mobile banking services has increased significantly the number of cyber crimes targeting users of major financial institutions. According to an interesting research conducted by the company RiskIQ more than 11 […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 07, 2015
Fake WhatsApp for Web offered in the wild

Cybercriminals are offering worldwide a fake WhatsApp for Web in spam campaign with the intent to serve banking malware and run other kinds of scams. Recently WhatsApp launched its web service that could be used by using Google Chrome and allows users to access all the conversations and messages from the mobile device. “Our web client is […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 04, 2015
Operation Pawn Storm hackers use a iOS spyware

By investigating on the cyber espionage campaign dubbed Operation Pawn Storm, experts at TrendLabs discovered a spyware designed for iOS devices. Security experts at TrendLabs have discovered a new espionage iOS app while they were investigating on the cyber espionage campaign dubbed Operation Pawn Storm. In October 2014, security experts at Trend Micro uncovered a cyber […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 04, 2015
Android adware infected more than 15 millions users via Play store

Security experts at Avast have discovered three malicious Android apps that were serving Adware, more than 15 million users infected via Play store. Adware is one of the most insidious threat to the mobile platform, this family of malicious code is used by threat actors to automatically display or downloads advertising material when a user […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 28, 2015
Official NFL apps (both iOS and Android) Vulnerable to Easy Hacking

It is now emerging that the official NFL app for IOS and Android is vulnerable to easy hacking. The app apparently sends unencrypted data to NFL servers and can therefore be hacked by anyone monitoring user traffic. With only a few days remaining before the Superbowl, it is now emerging that the fans might be […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 19, 2015
Verizon FiOS app flaw exposes 5 Million Customers’ accounts

Security expert discovered a critical flaw in Verizon’s FiOS mobile app that could be exploited to access the email account of any Verizon customer. A new critical vulnerability in exposing million accounts to cyber threats, this time the flaw affects the Verizon FiOS mobile app and could be exploited by attackers to access the email account […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 14, 2015
Over 930 million Android phones are out of official Google security patch support

Google is not able to direct control the distribution of bug patches for its devices, and 60 percent of Android phones is exposed to security risks. The security expert Todd Bearsley published an interesting blog post on Rapid7 Security Street blog explaining that the Metasploit framework currently includes 11 different exploits for WebView. “WebView is the core component […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 13, 2015
British Prime Minister wants to ban Online Messaging Apps including WhatsApp

Prime Minister Cameron said that the UK would pursue banning encrypted messaging apps if the Intelligence was not given access to the communications. At this historical moment, governments are facing increasingly dangerous cyber threats, but their activities are hampered by the large diffusion of encryption mechanisms. Following the Snowden‘s revelations, several IT firms like Google and Apple are […]