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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Tue, 02 May 2017 11:00:16 +0000
So-called ultrasonic beacons are becoming even more popular with marketers. Here’s how to shut them out. The post Hundreds of Apps Can Listen for Marketing ‘Beacons’ You Can’t Hear appeared first on WIRED.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 11:00:26 +0000
Researchers at the University of Michigan expose how an obscure feature of thousands of apps can give hackers remote access into your phone’s most sensitive guts. The post An Obscure App Flaw Creates Backdoors In Millions of Smartphones appeared first on WIRED.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Nathan Collier| Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 15:00:31 +0000
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The post Mobile Menace Monday: Securing your privacy on Android appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Bill Brenner| Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 15:35:54 +0000
The following report is by SophosLabs Android specialist Chen Yu, with support from Android team members William Lee, Jagadeesh Chandraiah and Ferenc László Nagy. As the amount of Android malware grows, it follows every step of its Windows counterparts when it comes to techniques used to evade emulators used for dynamic analysis. In this blog post, we’ll show some […]
Credit to Author: John Snow| Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2017 13:00:40 +0000
The most sophisticated attack ever seen on any endpoint, this modular spyware lurks on Android and iOS.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2017 11:30:44 +0000
A version of the nation-state favorite Pegasus software researchers found on iOS officially hit Android as well. The post Total-Takeover iPhone Spyware Lurks on Android, Too appeared first on WIRED.
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Credit to Author: Michael Kan| Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2017 17:56:00 -0700
Security researchers have uncovered the Android version of an iOS spyware known as Pegasus in a case that shows how targeted electronic surveillance can be.
Called Chrysaor, the Android variant can steal data from messaging apps, snoop over a phone’s camera or microphone, and even erase itself.
On Monday, Google and security firm Lookout disclosed the Android spyware, which they suspect comes from NSO Group, an Israeli security firm known to develop smartphone surveillance products.
Fortunately, the spyware never hit the mainstream. It was installed less than three dozen times on victim devices, most of which were located in Israel, according to Google. Other victim devices resided in Georgia, Mexico and Turkey, among other countries.
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Credit to Author: Lucian Constantin| Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 11:32:00 -0700
Six months ago, Google offered to pay $200,000 to any researcher who could remotely hack into an Android device by knowing only the victim’s phone number and email address. No one stepped up to the challenge.
While that might sound like good news and a testament to the mobile operating system’s strong security, that’s likely not the reason why the company’s Project Zero Prize contest attracted so little interest. From the start, people pointed out that $200,000 was too low a prize for a remote exploit chain that wouldn’t rely on user interaction.
“If one could do this, the exploit could be sold to other companies or entities for a much higher price,” one user responded to the original contest announcement in September.
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