Pierluigi Paganini
October 26, 2015
Nearly 18,000 Android apps built using the Taomike SDK, and used in China, have been found to include a malicious SMS stealing library. Bad news for Android users, according to according to Palo Alto Networks, nearly 18,000 Android Applications built using the Taomike SDK have been found to include SMS Stealing Library. The Taomike SDK is one […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 16, 2015
Researchers probed 20,400 Android devices and found 87.7 per cent contained at least one exploitable vulnerability due to a slow patch management. New Android vulnerabilities are discovered every day, but it looks like that, some Android vendors are very slow in applying the necessary patch to fix the security issues. Some Android vendors are only […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 09, 2015
Researchers at FireEye spotted a new malicious adware campaign (Kemoge threat) that has infected Android mobile devices in more than 20 countries. Security researchers at Fireeye have uncovered a malicious adware campaign which relies on a threat dubbed âKemogeâ based on the name of its command and control (C&C) domain aps.kemoge.net. The Kemoge malware is packaged with various popular […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 05, 2015
The post includes a detailed procedure to hack and decrypt WhatsApp Database remotely on rooted Android mobile devices. Very Interesting! A few hours ago it has been published an interesting post on “How to Hack and Decrypt WhatsApp Database (Remotely) [ROOT]” that explains how to extract and decrypt WhatsApp database from a rooted Android system. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 02, 2015
A billion Android phones are vulnerable to Stagefright 2.0 flaws that could be exploited by attackers to execute malicious code on the targeted device. Do you remember the Stagefright vulnerability? In July 2015,  security experts from Zimperium discovered the Stagefright flaw in the popular Google Android OS which allows hackers to gain control of the system without raising […]
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 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 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 […]
