Pierluigi Paganini
November 12, 2015
A duo of security researchers, Daniel Komaromy of San Francisco and Nico Golde of Berlin, demonstrated how to intercept calls using bogus base stations. PacSec Modern Samsung devices, including the last generation Samsung S6, S6 Edge and Note 4, are vulnerable to phone eavesdropping. A duo of experts, Daniel Komaromy of San Francisco and Nico […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 12, 2015
Experts at Cheetah Mobile are warning about Android Tablet pre-loaded with Cloudsota Trojan sold on Amazon and other online stores. Once again electronics equipment from China was offered for sale with pre-installed Trojan. This time, several models of Android tablets sold on Amazon and other online stores are sold with pre-loaded the Cloudsota malware. Cheetah Mobile has […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 05, 2015
Researchers at Lookout firm have come across a new malicious adware family distributed via trojanized versions of popular Android applications. Researchers at mobile security firm Lookout have come across a new malicious adware family distributed via trojanized versions of popular Android applications. Security experts at Lookout have discovered a new strain of adware dubbed Shuanet, which is distributed via […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 04, 2015
Experts at Google’s Project Zero have discovered a number of high severity flaws in the Android OS version running on Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge smartphones. Experts at Google Project Zero are conducting an analysis of the Android operating system running on the Android OS installed by other manufacturers on their mobile devices. The principal manufactures […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 03, 2015
A vulnerability known as Wormhole affects the Baidu Moplus SDK and potentially exposes more than 100 Million users to cyber attacks. The Moplus software development kit (SDK) distributed by the Chinese Search Engine Baidu includes a functionality that can be exploited to gain access to the user’s device. The backdoor-like feature potentially exposes more than 100 Million Android users to cyber attacks. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 29, 2015
A group of researchers demonstrated that it is possible to build a Low-cost IMSI catcher for 4G/LTE networks to track phone locations. IMSI catcher for 4G/LTE networks are very expensive devices that allow tracking phone locations. Now a group of researchers has found a way to track devices using the latest LTE standard for mobile networks, but with a very […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 27, 2015
A group of experts has conducted a research that demonstrates the type of data that can be gathered through the forensic study of WhatsApp. A new research conducted by forensic researchers at the University of New Haven (F. Karpisek of Brno University of Technology in the Czech Republic, and Ibrahim Baggili and Frank Breitinger, co-directors of the Cyber […]
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 12, 2015
Apple has removed mobile apps from the iOS Apple store that are installing root CA certificates that enable traffic to be intercepted. Apple has pulled several apps out from the official iOS App Store over SSL/TLS security concerns, this means that the security issues could allow threat actors to compromise encrypted connections between the servers […]
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 “Kemoge” based on the name of its command and control (C&C) domain aps.kemoge.net. The Kemoge malware is packaged with various popular […]
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