A vulnerability known as Wormhole that reportedly affected the software development kit (SDK), Moplus by Baidu is making waves due to the severity of the impact once successfully exploited. The said vulnerability was discovered by WooYun.og, a vulnerability reporting platform in China.
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Mobile Threats Analyst
The discovery of the first Stagefright vulnerability last July is turning out to be just the beginning of many security concerns for Android users. The latest Nexus security bulletin released earlier this month includes updates for 15 remote code execution vulnerabilities related to libstagefright, all tagged as critical. We discovered four of the mentioned vulnerabilities…
Read MoreMobile banking is now used by more and more users, so it shouldn’t be a surprise to see banking Trojans trying to hit these users as well. We’ve seen spammed mails that pretend to be an update notification for an official PayPal app. These mails ask the user to click on a link to download the update; users in Germany appear to be the target of this spam run based on the language used.
As is the case with all spam campaigns, multiple IP addresses from different countries spammed this particular mail at its intended German targets. 41% of these senders were in Vietnam, with other countries such as Ukraine, Russia, Brazil and India accounting for the remainder. Some variants of this message were sent more than 14,000 times.
Read MoreTwo newly discovered Android vulnerabilities can potentially be used to mess up specific messaging functions in phones and tablets. The first, designated as CVE-2015-3839, may allow attackers to insert malicious messages in the system messaging app and cause it to crash, thus blocking users from sending or receiving messages. Meanwhile, the second flaw, designated as…
Read MoreWe’ve discovered a vulnerability in the Apache Cordova app framework that allows attackers to modify the behavior of apps just by clicking a URL. The extent of the modifications can range from causing nuisance for app users to crashing the apps completely. Designated as CVE-2015-1835, this high-severity vulnerability affects all versions of Apache Cordova up…
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