Mobile

Pierluigi Paganini October 05, 2019
A bug in Signal for Android could be exploited to spy on users

Researcher discovered a logical flaw in the Signal messaging app for Android that could be exploited by a malicious caller to force a call to be answered at the receiver’s end without interaction. Google Project Zero white-hat hacker Natalie Silvanovich discovered a logical vulnerability in the Signal messaging app for Android that could be exploited […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 04, 2019
Project Zero researcher found unpatched Android zero-day likely exploited by NSO group

Google Project Zero researcher Maddie Stone discovered a critical unpatched zero-day vulnerability affecting the Android mobile operating system. Maddie Stone, a member of the Google elite team Project Zero, discovered a critical unpatched zero-day vulnerability affecting the Android mobile operating system. According to the expert, the bug, tracked as CVE-2019-2215, was allegedly being used or […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 04, 2019
Egypt regularly spies on opponents and activists with mobile apps

Researchers at Check Point discovered that Egypt ‘ government has been spying citizens in a sophisticated surveillance program Researchers at Check Point discovered that the Egyptian government has been spying on activists and opponents as part of a sophisticated surveillance program. The list of victims is long and includes journalists, politicians, activists and lawyers. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 02, 2019
Expert disclosed details of remote code execution flaw in Whatsapp for Android

Researcher discovered a double-free vulnerability in WhatsApp for Android that could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on the vulnerable device. A security researcher that goes online with the moniker Awakened discovered a double-free vulnerability in WhatsApp for Android and demonstrated how to leverage on it to remotely execute arbitrary code on […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 29, 2019
Security Affairs newsletter Round 233

A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs Hi folk, let me inform you that I suspended the newsletter service, anyway I’ll continue to provide you a list of published posts every week through the blog. Once again thank you! 0patch will provide micropatches for Windows […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 28, 2019
After SIMJacker, WIBattack hacking technique disclosed. Billions of users at risk

Researchers are warning of a new variant of recently disclosed SimJacker attack, dubbed WIBattack, that could expose millions of mobile phones to remote hacking. WIBattack is a new variant of the recently discovered Simjacker attack method that could expose millions of mobile phones to remote hacking. A couple of weeks ago, cybersecurity researchers at AdaptiveMobile Security disclosed a […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 27, 2019
Checkm8: unpatchable iOS exploit could lead to permanent jailbreak for iOS devices running A5 to A11 chips

A security expert has released a new jailbreak, dubbed Checkm8, that impacts all iOS devices running on A5 to A11 chipsets, it works on iPhone models from 4S to 8 and X. The security expert Axi0mX has released a new jailbreak, dubbed Checkm8, that works on all iOS devices running on A5 to A11 chipsets. The jailbreak works with all Apple products released […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 26, 2019
iOS 13 Bug Gives Third-Party Keyboards “Full Access” Permissions

This week, Apple released iOS 13 and iPadOS, now a few days later, the company is warning users of an unpatched security flaw in third-party keyboard apps. Apple has released a security advisory to warn users of an unpatched security bug in iOS 13 that affects third-party keyboard apps. The bug can result in granting […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 22, 2019
Security Affairs newsletter Round 232

A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs Hi folk, let me inform you that I suspended the newsletter service, anyway I’ll continue to provide you a list of published posts every week through the blog. Once again thank you! A bug in Instagram exposed user […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 20, 2019
Two selfie Android adware apps with 1.5M+ downloads removed from Play Store

Experts at Wandera’s threat research team discovered two adware apps on the Google Play Store that were downloaded 1.5M+ times. Researchers at Wandera discovered two adware selfie filter camera apps on the Google Play that were pushing ads and that can record audio. The bad news is that the two apps were downloaded 1.5M+ times. […]