Pierluigi Paganini
May 13, 2016
Processors manufactured by the Chinese ARM maker Allwinner are affected by a kernel backdoor and are present is several models of low-cost devices. In the security community is circulating the news about the presence of a backdoor in the gadgets shipped by the popular Chinese ARM maker Allwinner. Processors manufactured by the company are present […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 06, 2016
Mandiant – FireEye has disclosed the details of a serious information disclosure vulnerability affecting one of the Qualcomm software package widely used. Security researchers from the Mandiant firm have discovered a “high severity” vulnerability in the Qualcomm tethering controller (CVE-2016-2060) that could be exploited by a malicious application to access user information. Recently Google released an Android update that addresses […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 04, 2016
Patches for 40 high and medium severity vulnerabilities have been included in Google’s May 2016 security update for the Android operating system. Patches for 40 vulnerabilities have been included in Google’s May 2016 security update for the Android operating system. Many high and medium severity vulnerabilities, in addition to one low severity vulnerability, are patched […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 26, 2016
Blue Coat spotted a new ransomware-based campaign serving the Dogspectus malware. Crooks combined a Hacking Team exploit and the Towelroot exploit. Security experts at Blue Coat have spotted a new campaign spreading an Android Ransomware dubbed Dogspectus. The malicious code hijacks mobile advertisements to scam gift cards, it locks the device in a state that allows only […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 27, 2016
Security researchers from the Cheetah Mobile Security Research Lab discovered a severe flaw in the call management application Truecaller. Recently, security researchers from the Cheetah Mobile Security Research Lab discovered a severe loophole in the popular phone call management application Truecaller. This vulnerability allows anyone to steal Truecaller users’ sensitive information, potentially opening doors for […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 22, 2016
Google released an emergency security patch to fix the local elevation of privilege vulnerability CVE-2015-1805 affecting its OS. Google has released an emergency security patch to fix the local elevation of privilege vulnerability CVE-2015-1805 affecting the kernel of the Android OS of certain devices. The vulnerability is ranked as critical and can be exploited by rooting applications […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 18, 2016
Malware researchers at the Dr Web firm have found an Android malware named Gmobi specifically designed to spread as a software development kit (SDK). Malware researchers at security firm Dr.Web have detected a new strain of malware that was specifically designed to spread as a software development kit (SDK) used by software developers and mobile device […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 15, 2016
After the source code of the Android banking Trojan GM Bot was leaked online, the new version GM Bot v2 was offered for sale. The availability of the source code of a malware in the criminal underground represents a great opportunity for crooks that can customize the threat allowing its evolution in an unpredictable way. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 10, 2016
Kaspersky Lab recently spotted a new Android malware dubbed Triads Trojan, which they say is the most advanced mobile malware seen to date. Malware researchers at Kaspersky Lab have discovered a new strain of malware, dubbed Triada (Backdoor.AndroidOS.Triada), targeting Android devices, which they consider the most advanced mobile threat seen to date. The range of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 09, 2016
A large percentage of Android devices is affected by security vulnerabilities that could be exploited by attackers to easily gain a Root Access. According to experts at TrendMicro a large percentage of Android devices in use today is affected by security vulnerabilities that could be exploited by attackers to easily gain a root access. The attack allows an ill-intentioned […]
