Pierluigi Paganini
January 19, 2019
Security expert Robert Baptiste (akaElliot Alderson) discovered a vulnerability (CVE-2019-6447) in the ES File Explorer that potentially expose hundreds of million Android installs. The ES File Explorer is an Android file manager that has over 100,000,000 installs and more than 500 million users worldwide according to its developer. Baptiste discovered that the application uses a local […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 18, 2019
A bug in the Twitter app for Android may have had exposed tweets, the social media platform revealed on Thursday. The bug in the Android Twitter app affects the âProtect my Tweetsâ option from the accountâs âPrivacy and safetyâ settings that allows viewing user’s posts only to approved followers. People who used the Twitter app […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 09, 2019
Google released its security patches for Android in 2019 that addressed tens of vulnerabilities in the popular mobile OS. Google released the first batch of security patches for Android in 2019 that addressed tens of flaws, the most severe of them is the CVE-2018-9583 issue. The CVE-2018-9583Â flaw is a critical remote code execution vulnerability affecting […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 23, 2018
Malware researcher discovered 13 fraudulent apps into Google Play that have been already downloaded and installed more than 560,000 times. Malware researcher Lukas Stefanko from security firm ESET discovered 13 malicious apps into Google Play that have been already downloaded and installed over half a million times (+560,000). The malicious apps could allow attackers to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 12, 2018
According to Android Ecosystem Security Transparency Report the number of potentially harmful applications has fallen from 0.66% in Lollipop to 0.06% in Pie Google published the first Android Ecosystem Security Transparency Report that revealed that the number of potentially harmful applications (PHAs) discovered on Android 9 Pie devices has been reduced by half compared to the previous versions. According […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 06, 2018
Security experts at Trend Micro have spotted an IRC bot dubbed Shellbot that was built using Perl Shellbot. The malware was distributed by a threat group called Outlaw, it was able to target Linux and Android devices, and also Windows systems. “We uncovered an operation of a hacking group, which weâre naming âOutlawâ (translation derived from the Romanian word haiduc, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 25, 2018
The media outlet The Verge obtained a copy of a contract between Google and OEMs that obliges them to two years of security updates for popular phones. Google continues the battle for securing devices of its users, this time making mandatory for device makers two years of Android security updates. One of the main problems with […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 17, 2018
Experts at the Google Android team have discovered high severity privilege escalation vulnerability in some of Honeywell Android-based handheld computers. Security experts from the Google Android team have discovered a high severity privilege escalation vulnerability in some of Honeywell Android-based handheld computers that could be exploited by an attacker to gain elevated privileges. According to the vendor, Honeywell handheld computers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 27, 2018
A group of researchers has conducted an interesting study on AT commands attacks on modern Android devices discovering that models of 11 vendors are at risk A group of researchers from the University of Florida, Stony Brook University, and Samsung Research America, has conducted an interesting research on the set of AT commands that are […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 27, 2018
A Google security researcher disclosed a vulnerability in the newcome Fortnite Android App that exposes it to Man-in-the-Disk attacks. After a long wait, Fortnite Android app has finally arrived but it hides an ugly surprise, it is vulnerable to Man-in-the-Disk (MitD) attacks that can allow a third-party application to crash it or run malicious code. The […]
