Banking.BR Android Trojan Emerges in Credential-Stealing Attacks

A recently uncovered banking trojan aims to steal Android victims’ online banking credentials and take over their bank accounts, using “elaborate” overlay attack capabilities. The malware, dubbed “Banker.BR” by researchers with IBM X-Force, was spotted in messages targeting users in countries tha...

Android Trojan Targets PayPal Users

Want to download an Android battery utility app from a third-party Android app store? What could possibly go wrong? Last month researchers downloaded a power management app called “Optimization Android” from an undisclosed third-party app store. What they found was instead of optimizing the phone...

CVE-2017-9820

The National Payments Corporation of India BHIM application 1.3 for Android uses a custom keypad for which the input element is available to the Accessibility service, which makes it easier for attackers to bypass authentication...

Authentication flaw

The National Payments Corporation of India BHIM application 1.3 for Android uses a custom keypad for which the input element is available to the Accessibility service, which makes it easier for attackers to bypass authentication...

CVE-2017-9820

The CVE-2017-9820 entry concerns the National Payments Corporation of India BHIM Android app (v1.3). A vulnerability exists where the app’s custom keypad exposes the input element to the Accessibility service, enabling bypass of authentication. This is described with a CVSS-3.0 base score of 9.8 ...

CVE-2017-9820

The National Payments Corporation of India BHIM application 1.3 for Android uses a custom keypad for which the input element is available to the Accessibility service, which makes it easier for attackers to bypass authentication...

CVE-2017-9820: Improper Authentication

The National Payments Corporation of India BHIM application 1.3 for Android uses a custom keypad for which the input element is available to the Accessibility service, which makes it easier for attackers to bypass authentication...

PT-2018-8539

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions National Payments Corporation of India BHIM application version 1.3 Description The issue concerns the custom keypad in the BHIM application, where the input element is accessible to the Accessibility service. This accessibility makes it easie...

Divide Between Work, Personal Data on Android Breached

SAN FRANCISCO–Researchers here at the RSA Conference demonstrated Thursday a way a hacker can bypass enterprise mobility management sandboxing tools known as Android for Work that are designed to segregate work and personal data on Android devices. In a proof-of-concept demonstration, researchers...

This Malware Can Secretly Auto-Install any Android App to Your Phone

Own an Android Smartphone? Hackers can install any malicious third-party app on your smartphone remotely even if you have clearly tapped a reject button of the app. Security researchers have uncovered a trojanized adware family that has the capability to automatically install any app on an Androi...

Mozilla layout engine crashes

The browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.12, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.12, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash and possibly trigger memory corruption via vectors related to the 1 nsTableFrame::GetFrameAtOrBefore, 2...