Android

Pierluigi Paganini March 02, 2020
SurfingAttack – hacking phones via ultrasonic waves

SurfingAttack is an attacking technique that allows to wake up mobile device and control them using voice commands encoded in ultrasonic waves. SurfingAttack is a hacking technique that sees voice commands encoded in ultrasonic waves silently activate a mobile phone’s digital assistant. The technique could be used to do several actions such as making phone […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 27, 2020
New strain of Cerberus Android banking trojan can steal Google Authenticator codes

Experts found a new version of the Cerberus Android banking trojan that can steal one-time codes generated by the Google Authenticator app and bypass 2FA. Security researchers from ThreatFabric warn of a new Android malware strain can now steal one-time passcodes (OTP) generated through Google Authenticator that is used as part of 2FA to protect online […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 22, 2020
Google removed nearly 600 apps from the Play Store for ad policy violation

Google announced to have removed nearly 600 Android apps in the official Play Store that were violating two ad-related policies. Google removed from the official Play Store nearly 600 Android apps that were violating two ad-related policies, it also banned the same apps from Google AdMob and Google Ad Manager. “As part of our ongoing […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 13, 2020
Google Play Protect prevented 1.9 billion malware installs from Third-party stores in 2019

Google Play Protect now scans over 100 billion applications on Android devices every day, these amazing figures were disclosed by Google. In May 2017, Google introduced a security defense system called Google Play Protect to protect the devices running its mobile OS. Google aims at monitoring the behavior of the apps and the detection of the malicious […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 07, 2020
Critical Android Bluetooth flaw CVE-2020-0022 could be exploited without user interaction

Google addressed a critical vulnerability in its Android OS that affects the Bluetooth subsystem and could be exploited without user interaction. Google has addressed a critical flaw in Android OS that affects the Bluetooth subsystem and could be exploited without user interaction. The vulnerability tracked as CVE-2020-0022 is a remote code execution flaw that could […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 16, 2020
Hundreds of million users installed Android fleeceware apps from Google Play

Security experts from Sophos discovered 25 Android apps on the official Google Play that were involved in financial fraud, 600 million affected. Security researchers from Sophos discovered a set of so-called fleeceware apps that have been installed by more than 600 million Android users. Fleeceware apps are malicious applications uploaded to the official Google Play […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 12, 2020
Google removed 1.7K+ Joker Malware infected apps from its Play Store

Google revealed it successfully removed more than 1,700 apps from the Play Store over the past three years that had been infected with the Joker malware. Google provided technical details of its activity against the Joker malware (aka Bread) operation during the last few years. The Joker malware is a malicious code camouflaged as a […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 07, 2020
Malicious app exploiting CVE-2019-2215 zero-day available in Google Play since March

Security experts have found a malicious app in the Google Play that exploits the recently patched CVE-2019-2215 zero-day vulnerability. Earlier October, Google Project Zero researchers Maddie Stone publicly disclosed a zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-2215, in Android. Maddie Stone published technical details and a proof-of-concept exploit for the high-severity security vulnerability, seven days after she reported it to the colleagues […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 25, 2019
A flaw in Twitter App for Android could have been exploited to take over the account

A flaw in the Twitter app for Android could have been exploited by attackers to obtain sensitive information or take over an account. Twitter has recently addressed a security vulnerability that affected the Android version of the app, it could have been exploited by hackers to access sensitive information of the users (direct messages, protected […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 09, 2019
Google fixes a critical DoS flaw tracked as CVE-2019-2232 in Android

Google addressed a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-2232, that could trigger a permanent denial of service (DoS) condition in Android. Google released December 2019 security updates for its Android mobile OS that addressed several flaws, including a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-2232, that could result in a permanent denial of service (DoS). Google addressed more […]