mobile app

Pierluigi Paganini November 21, 2014
Brazilian bank users threatened by 2 malicious apps deployed on the Google Play

Kaspersky Lab discovered a couple of malicious apps deployed on the official Google Play Store that targets Brazilian Android mobile banking users. A couple of malicious apps targeting Brazilian Android users were recently found in the official Google Play by experts at Kaspersky Lab. The malicious apps targeted mobile banking users using an appearance similar to the one of the […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 18, 2014
WhatsApp implements encryption by default on Android OS

WhatsApp implemented the encryption by default on Android OS with the collaboration of the Open Whisper company. Soon it will be extended to other platforms. Many time security community has discussed about security of the popular messaging application WhatsApp, early 2014 experts at Praetorian discovered different security issues in the way WhatApp implements SSL, the principal one is the […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 08, 2014
P2P payment feature hidden in Facebook Messenger

The student Andrew Aude discovered a still unreleased feature for payments of Facebook Messenger by using the iOS and Mac OS X hacking tool Cycript. Facebook is preparing to enter the world of mobile payments according to a recent report published by Techcrunch. The student at Stanford, Andrew Aude discovered a still unreleased feature of Facebook Messenger by […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 22, 2014
Hacking Gmail mobile app with 92 percent success and many other applications

Researchers have developed a malware which exploits “a newly discovered public side channel” which allows the access to the shared memory statistics of an app’s process. Researchers have developed a proof-of-concept malware running on an Android OS that can silently syphon sensitive data from mobile apps on Android, iOS and Windows Phone with up to a 92% success rate. […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 10, 2014
Malicious Facebook color changer App infected 10000 Users worldwide

Security Experts at Cheetah Mobile have uncovered a new scam based on a fake Facebook Color Changer App which infected 10000 users worldwide. Facebook  is a privileged target for cyber criminals, in many cases old fraud schema are proposed again by bad actors, it is the case of the bogus Facebook “Color Changer” app. Researchers at China-based Internet company […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 21, 2014
Hacked BigBoss, the biggest Cydia’s repository

The BigBoss app repository, the default package store for Cydia application, has been hacked by a group of hackers which named itself “Kim Jong-Cracks”. The BigBoss repository, one of the biggest and most popular repositories for jailbreak tweaks in Cydia, has suffered a major data breach. Cydia is an application very popular within the community of iOS Apple […]