Android Stagefright like attack for iPhone, All it takes is a specially crafted message to hack your iPhone If you remember the Stagefright vulnerability in Android discovered in July last year, youRead More →
Malicious macros made a comeback in 2015 to deliver malware. Now we’re seeing phishing emails use macros in Excel attachments to steal sensitive banking details. In 2015, we saw maliciousRead More →
Short Bytes: If you want to see how easy it is for an expert hacker to take complete control of your computer, you are at the right place. In aRead More →
Nintendo’s new location-based augmented reality game ‘Pokémon GO’ is hot right now. Like really, really popular—so much so that players are spoofing their phone’s location using VPNs in their questRead More →
We put people first in everything we do at Messenger, and today we are beginning to roll out a new option within Messenger to better support conversations about sensitive topics.Read More →
The upcoming version of Android introduces a new condition so the “resetPassword” API cannot be used to reset a device’s password. The change impacts both ransomware and disinfectors. Android.Lockdroid.E variantsRead More →
Yingmob supposedly controls over 85 million Android devices. A Chinese advertising company is responsible for two of the biggest waves of malware for both the Android and iOS ecosystems, a recentRead More →
Popular Android Keyboard App with 50 million downloads is spying on you. A popular Android keyboard app called Flash Keyboard was found by a UK-based cyber-security firm, Pentest to be askingRead More →
When it comes to accessing public websites, Tor has an intrinsic security problem: though the nodes between your computer and the public internet are unable to see where the trafficRead More →
Unlike Apple’s iOS, Android is vulnerable to several key-extraction techniques. Privacy advocates take note: Android’s full-disk encryption just got dramatically easier to defeat on devices that use chips from semiconductor makerRead More →
In April 2016, while investigating a Smishing campaign dubbed RuMMS that involved the targeting of Android users in Russia, we also noticed three similar Smishing campaigns reportedly spreading inDenmark (FebruaryRead More →
IN THE PAST two years a group of researchers in Israel has become highly adept at stealing data from air-gapped computers—those machines prized by hackers that, for security reasons, areRead More →
Last week Apple cleared the air as to whether or not it intentionally released an unencrypted version of its iOS 10 beta kernel to the developer community, stating the moveRead More →
Rooting malware is getting more popular with every new week. Security experts from Lookout have identified an app in Google Play Store that hides malware capable of rooting the user’s deviceRead More →
After settling charges with the Federal Trade Commission this week a mobile advertising company will pay nearly $1M after it was determined the company tracked customers – including children –Read More →
Location services could very useful to find lost devices, but do not do anything silly to find your stolen smartphone, it could be very risky. People underestimate the risk relatedRead More →
We came across a family of mobile malware called Godless (detected as ANDROIDOS_GODLESS.HRX) that has a set of rooting exploits in its pockets. By having multiple exploits to use, GodlessRead More →
We found a new piece of mobile malware, Android/Trojan.Pawost, that’s using Google Talk to make malicious calls. As soon as the malicious app is opened, a blank Google Talk iconRead More →
Two mobile variants of Triada and Horde malware have been spotted in the wild by Check Point Software Technologies researchers who warn the latest samples have adopted dangerous new techniques includingRead More →
Incident seems to be another ATO (account takeover) attack.GoToMyPC decided to reset user passwords after attackers tried to hack into customer accounts over the weekend using what the company callsRead More →
