Tag Archives: Android

At the end of last week, Google Project Zero experts said that unnamed sites attacked iPhone users for more than two years using 14 vulnerabilities combined in five exploit chains. It seems that Google-caught iPhone crackers have also attacked Android and Windows users. Compromise occurred without any user’s involvement, it …

In the past few years, Facebook was noticed in scandals related to violation of users’ privacy. Now, the Facebook application has been convicted of collecting information about users’ system libraries and uploading it to the company’s servers. Additionally, experts blame the Chinese face-changing application Zao for manipulating users’ data. Hong …

Another spyware program managed to bypass the filters of Google Play Store, the official store of applications for Android. The talk is about the AhMyth component implemented in a legitimate program, the source code of which has been available on GitHub for more than two years. AhMyth is a remote …

Security experts analyzed a new interesting banking Trojan for the Android mobile operating system. The malware got the name Cerberus, and its author rents out its development (malware-as-a-service scheme). Cerberus is a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) designed from the ground up — without partial or full use of the code …

Doctor Web analysts have revealed yet another trojan in the Google Play application directory. The threat received the identifier Android.Click.312.origin and is a classic clicker, so it is used to increase website visits and monetize online traffic. Malware was built into the most common at first glance applications (the list …

Released in July Android update (levels 2019-07-01 and 2019-07-05) brought patches for 33 vulnerabilities in OS itself, libraries, frameworks, and also for Qualcomm closed and open components. Among fixed issues were nine critical RCE bugs. According to the official Android Security Bulletin, the most dangerous of all vulnerabilities is a …

Last week it was reported that Outlook app for Android, which is used by more than 100,000,000 people, eliminated dangerous XSS bug. Vulnerability received a CVE-2019-1105 identifier and affected Outlook for Android prior to version 3.0.88. The problem was in a so-called stored XSS, that is, a “stored” or “permanent” …

Previously, manufacturers of forensic tools that allow hacking mobile devices preferred not to tell anyone about their products, except for their clients among law enforcement agencies and special services, but now everything has changed. Israeli company Cellebrite has publicly announced that since now with its UFED Premium tool, it is …

Mozilla, a company that develops one of the most popular browsers, said about its plans to “transplant” its Android users from Firefox on new mobile browser Fenix. According to published by company report, Firefox for Android lifecycle will stop in 2020. Mozilla developers worked on Fenix during the last few …

Changes aim to prevent any opportunities for malware developers to post their products in Google Play Store. In particular, Google implemented new limitations for Android API, and now prior to Play Store publication application will undergo a complicated safety check. Among other improvements is testing of new applications by people …