Pierluigi Paganini
December 24, 2019
A popular mobile app in the Middle East called ToTok has been removed from both Apple and Google’s online stores because it was a spy tool. According to a report published by the New York Times, the popular app ToTok was used by the UAE government as a surveillance tool. It has been removed from […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 17, 2019
WhatsApp fixed a severe bug that could have allowed a malicious group member to crash the messaging app for all members of the same group. WhatsApp addressed a severe vulnerability that could have allowed a malicious group member to crash the messaging app for all members of the same group. An attacker could trigger the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 09, 2019
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 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 19, 2019
Experts found multiple flaws (CVE-2019-2234) in the Android camera apps provided by Google and Samsung that could allow attackers to spy on users. Cybersecurity experts from Checkmarx discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the Android camera apps provided by Google and Samsung could have been exploited by hackers to spy on hundreds of millions of users. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 16, 2019
The popular messaging platform WhatsApp made the headlines again, a new bug could be exploited by hackers to secretly install spyware. According to the website The Hacker News, WhatsApp has recently fixed a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-11931, that could have allowed attackers to remotely compromise targeted devices. The CVE-2019-11931Â is a stack-based buffer overflow issue […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 16, 2019
A working exploit for the checkm8 BootROM vulnerability is now available and security experts fear that threat actors could use is in attacks in the wild. This week, the “unpatchable” jailbreak, known as Checkra1n, for the checkm8 BootROM vulnerability was officially released potentially threatening millions of devices. “This release is an early beta preview and as such […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 02, 2019
Proton Technologies announced this week that it has made available the source code of its popular ProtonMail iOS App. The Proton Technologies firm continues to propose initiatives aimed at ensuring the transparency of its ProtonMail applications, this week it announced the availability of the source code of its popular ProtonMail iOS App. Recently the cybersecurity […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 30, 2019
WhatsApp sued Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group, accusing it of using a flaw in its messaging service to conduct cyberespionage on journalists and activists. WhatsApp sued the Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group accusing it of carrying out malicious attacks against its users. In May, Facebook has patched a critical zero-day vulnerability in WhatsApp, tracked as CVE-2019-3568, that has […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 27, 2019
Wandera researchers discovered seventeen iOS applications infected with clicker Trojan into the official Apple App Store. Experts at Wandera discovered seventeen iOS applications infected with clicker Trojan into the official Apple App Store. The mobile apps were instructed by the C&C to simulate user interactions, allowing crooks to fraudulently collect ad revenue. “The clicker trojan […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 18, 2019
A researcher has published a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code for the CVE-2019-2215 zero-day flaw in Android recently addressed by Google Earlier October, Google Project Zero researchers Maddie Stone publicly disclosed a zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-2215, in Android. According to the expert, the bug was allegedly being used or sold by the controversial surveillance firm NSO […]
