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Cybersecurity researchers have discovered malicious Android apps for Signal and Telegram distributed via the Google Play Store and Samsung Galaxy Store that are engineered to deliver the BadBazaar spyware on infected devices. Slovakian company ESET attributed the campaign to a China-linked actor called GREF. “Most likely active since July 2020 and since July 2022, respectively, […]
Two security flaws have been disclosed in Samsung’s Galaxy Store app for Android that could be exploited by a local attacker to stealthily install arbitrary apps or direct prospective victims to fraudulent landing pages on the web. The issues, tracked as CVE-2023-21433 and CVE-2023-21434, were discovered by NCC Group and notified to the South Korean […]
Threat actors associated with the Roaming Mantis attack campaign have been observed delivering an updated variant of their patent mobile malware known as Wroba to infiltrate Wi-Fi routers and undertake Domain Name System (DNS) hijacking. Kaspersky, which carried out an analysis of the malicious artifact, said the feature is designed to target specific Wi-Fi routers […]
Your smartphone is your daily companion. The chances are that most of our activities rely on them, from ordering food to booking medical appointments. However, the threat landscape always reminds us how vulnerable smartphones can be. Consider the recent discovery by Oversecured, a security startup. These experts observed the dynamic code loading and its potential […]
The operators behind BRATA have once again added more capabilities to the Android mobile malware in an attempt to make their attacks against financial apps more stealthy. “In fact, the modus operandi now fits into an Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) activity pattern,” Italian cybersecurity firm Cleafy said in a report last week. “This term is […]
Apple reportedly notified several U.S. Embassy and State Department employees that their iPhones may have been targeted by an unknown assailant using state-sponsored spyware created by the controversial Israeli company NSO Group, according to multiple reports from Reuters and The Washington Post. At least 11 U.S. Embassy officials stationed in Uganda or focusing on issues […]
Socially engineered SMS messages are being used to install malware on Android devices as part of a widespread phishing campaign that impersonates the Iranian government and social security services to make away with credit card details and steal funds from victims’ bank accounts. Unlike other variants of banking malware that bank of overlay attacks to […]
Google has rolled out its monthly security patches for Android with fixes for 39 flaws, including a zero-day vulnerability that it said is being actively exploited in the wild in limited, targeted attacks. Tracked as CVE-2021-1048, the zero-day bug is described as a use-after-free vulnerability in the kernel that can be exploited for local privilege […]
Pentesters/ security researchers uses many devices for testing their hacking skills or finding new bugs in any web application. Mostly users uses Linux different flavors for testing purposes. But mostly Kali Linux is the most popular OS which is used by pentesters and it is also the part of ethical hacking & mobile hacking courses […]
OnePlus 7 Pro Fingerprint Scanner hacked within minutes using Fake Fingerprint that can be created using hot-glue due to inadequate security that is implemented in the OnePlus 7 Pro Fingerprinting unlock Feature. OnePlus, is a Chinese smartphone manufacturer based in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China and it is one of the leading Smartphone manufacturers in the world. […]
In the latest case of a hacking company being hacked, details by the crew that claims to have spirited away login info and other data from the cell phone-cracking company. According to a report from the Motherboard, an unnamed hacker has breached Cellebrite’s systems and managed to steal 900 Gb of data. The data includes […]