Pierluigi Paganini
April 04, 2017
Chrysaor spyware is an Android surveillance malware that remained undetected for at least three years, NSO Group Technology is suspected to be the author. Security experts at Google and Lookout spotted an Android version of one of the most sophisticated mobile spyware known as Chrysaor that remainedĀ undetected for at least three years. due to its […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 23, 2017
Chinese scammers are deploying rogue cellphone towers to spread the Android Swearing Trojan via malicious URL in SMS messages. Chinese scammers areĀ deploying fake mobile base stations to spread the Android Swearing Trojan in text messages. The attackers have improved the well-known Smishing attack using rogue cell phone towers as theĀ attack vector and distribute the Android […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 12, 2017
Researchers devised a new attack method that can be leveraged to track mobile devices that rely on MAC address randomization mechanism. The MAC address is a unique and anĀ hardcodedĀ identifier assigned to a deviceās network interface. This characteristic makes it an excellent tool for the tracking of the devices.Ā A group of researchers from the U.S. Naval […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 11, 2017
Experts discovered pre-installed malware on 38 high-end smartphone models belonging to popular manufacturing companies such as Samsung, LG, Xiaomi and Asus. In the past, security experts have already reported cases of pre-installed malware on mobile devices. In September 2015, security experts at G-Data security firm discovered new cases of Chinese Android mobile devices infected by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 18, 2017
Experts at Kaspersky Lab have analyzed several Android car apps and discovered that most of them lack proper security features to protect vehicles. Security researchers from antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab have analyzed seven of theĀ most popular Android apps that allow to remotely controlĀ millions of modern cars. The experts discovered that the Android apps, whose name […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 14, 2017
Malware researchers at the security firm Securify have published a detailed analysis of the Marcher Android banking Trojan. Security experts at theĀ SecurifyĀ have published a detailed analysis of theĀ Marcher Android banking Trojan, a threat thatĀ has been around since late 2013. First variants of the malware were developed to trick users into handing over their payment card […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 25, 2017
Last year, the HummingBad Android malware infected as many as 85 million devices, now it has returned under the new name of HummingWhale. CERT-EU and other sources corroborated Check Point researchersā findings which recently confirmed a new variant of the ad-fraud-big-money-making, HummingBad, is spreading rapidly on the Android marketplace Google Play.Ā HummingBad was first seen […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 23, 2017
Antivirus firm Dr. Web spotted a new Android malware dubbed BankBot that is based on a source code that was leaked on an underground forum. Bad news for Android users, researchers from the Russian antivirus maker Dr. Web have reported thatĀ the source code for another Android banking malware has been leaked on an underground hacking […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 06, 2017
My friends at CyberBlogĀ decided to analyze theĀ GM Bot Android Malware as exercise aiming to receive feedback sand suggestions from the security community. The sample explored is confirmed as a variant of the GM Bot Android malware ā whoās source was released publicly in early 2016. The code appears to have been forked by a second […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 06, 2017
Zscaler experts have found in the wild a fake version of the Super Mario Run Android App that could install the Android Marcher banking trojan. Bad news for mobile gamers, security experts at ZscalerĀ have spottedĀ a strain of theĀ Android Marcher TrojanĀ masqueraded as the recently releasedĀ Super Mario Run mobile game for Appleās iOS. Marcher isĀ a sophisticated banking […]
