Pierluigi Paganini
October 30, 2019
WhatsApp sued Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group, accusing it of using a flaw in its messaging service to conduct cyberespionage on journalists and activists. WhatsApp sued the Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group accusing it of carrying out malicious attacks against its users. In May, Facebook has patched a critical zero-day vulnerability in WhatsApp, tracked as CVE-2019-3568, that has […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 27, 2019
Wandera researchers discovered seventeen iOS applications infected with clicker Trojan into the official Apple App Store. Experts at Wandera discovered seventeen iOS applications infected with clicker Trojan into the official Apple App Store. The mobile apps were instructed by the C&C to simulate user interactions, allowing crooks to fraudulently collect ad revenue. “The clicker trojan […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 18, 2019
A researcher has published a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code for the CVE-2019-2215 zero-day flaw in Android recently addressed by Google Earlier October, Google Project Zero researchers Maddie Stone publicly disclosed a zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-2215, in Android. According to the expert, the bug was allegedly being used or sold by the controversial surveillance firm NSO […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 14, 2019
New problems for Apple, most of its users likely ignore that the company is sharing iOS web browsing data on some of them to Chinese giant Tencent. Most Apple users likely don’t know that the tech giant is sending iOS web browsing data on some of them to the Chinese giant Tencent. The news is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 10, 2019
NSO Group ‘s surveillance spyware made the headlines again, this time the malware was used to spy on 2 rights activists in Morocco according Amnesty International. Amnesty International collected evidence of new abuses of the NSO Group ‘s surveillance spyware, this time the malware was used to spy two rights activists in Morocco. Experts at […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 05, 2019
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
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
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
September 28, 2019
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 26, 2019
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 […]
