Pierluigi Paganini
September 04, 2015
A new variant of Android ransomware relies on the instant messaging protocol XMPP to establish a communication with C&C servers. According to security researchers at Check Point Software Technologies a new Android ransomware disguised as a video player app implements a method of communication different from any other similar threat. This Android ransomware is different from […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 03, 2015
Veracode has conducted a research on the security of several mobile gambling apps and discovered a number of flaws that expose enterprises to serious risks. If you belong to a global corporation, the most probably think you will find out is that some of your colleagues have installed mobile apps that donât belong to the […]
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 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 19, 2015
CVE-2015-3842 is a new flaw affecting the Android mediaserver, which can be exploited to perform attacks involving arbitrary code execution. The problems for Android users continue, a long serie of vulnerabilities has been discovered by the experts in the last weeks, Stagefright, zero-day zero-day deserialization, and Certifi-Gate are the names of some of the flaw recently […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 18, 2015
By Exploiting a flaw in the SS7 protocol hackers can access every conversation and text message mobile users send from everywhere in the world. Hackers can spy on every mobile phone user wherever it is. Channel Nine’s 60 Minutes has revealed the existence of a security hole in modern telecommunication systems that could be exploited by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 15, 2015
MWR Labs have disclosed information on an unpatched vulnerability that allows an attacker to easily bypass the Android sandbox. Other problems for the popular Android OS, after the discovery of the Stagefright vulnerabilities and other security flaws recently revealed by security researchers, now experts at MWR Labs have disclosed information on an unpatched vulnerability that allows […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 10, 2015
Certifi-Gate is the name of a new vulnerability affecting Android mobile devices discovered by Check Point security that could be exploited to control them. Android users had a bad time after discovering the “Stagefright” vulnerability, but unfortunately other security issues are warning them. It was recently discovered a new vulnerability dubbed Certifi-Gate which could be […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 10, 2015
Researchers from FireEye have revealed that it is possible to attack Android smartphone to remotely steal user’s fingerprints on a “large scale.” Security experts have often expressed concerns regarding the fingerprint management implemented by the principal mobile vendors. Hackers have demonstrated that it is not difficult to trigger vulnerabilities inside systems that manage fingerprints in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 07, 2015
Security experts from FireEye demonstrated that Hacking Team leveraged iOS vulnerability to install fake messaging apps implementing a Masque Attack. Another news related with the leak of the Hacking Team‘s hack, this time it was discovered that Hacking Team was capable of compromising IOS devices, even if they werenât jailbroken. To accomplish this, Hacking Team […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 05, 2015
Apple’s iOS 8.4 operating system for Mac OS X can be jail broken now, thanks to the Untethered Jailbreak tool released by the Chinese jailbreaking team TaiG Apple’s iOS 8.4 operating system for Mac OS X can be jail broken now, thanks to the Untethered Jailbreak tool released by the Chinese jailbreaking team TaiG. Quite […]
