Two Spyware Apps on Google Play with 1.5 Million Users Sending Data to China

Two file management apps on the Google Play Store have been discovered to be spyware, putting the privacy and security of up to 1.5 million Android users at risk. These apps engage in deceptive behaviour and secretly send sensitive user data to malicious servers in China. Pradeo, a leading mobile...

Design/Logic Flaw

Vulnerability of apps' permission to access a certain API being incompletely verified in the wireless projection module. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect some wireless projection features...

PT-2023-22404 · Unknown · Blue Light Filter

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Blue Light Filter version 1.5.5 Description: The issue allows unauthorized apps to cause escalation of privilege attacks by manipulating the SharedPreference files. This can lead to unauthorized access and control. Recommendations: For Blue...

Google Announces New Privacy, Safety, and Security Features Across Its Services

Google unveiled a slew of new privacy, safety, and security features today at its annual developer conference, Google I/O. The tech giant's latest initiatives are aimed at protecting its users from cyber threats, including phishing attacks and malicious websites, while providing more control and...

CVE-2023-21092

In retrieveServiceLocked of ActiveServices.java, there is a possible way to dynamically register a BroadcastReceiver using permissions of System App due to improper input validation. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction ...

CVE-2023-21092

In retrieveServiceLocked of ActiveServices.java, there is a possible way to dynamically register a BroadcastReceiver using permissions of System App due to improper input validation. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction ...

Input validation

In retrieveServiceLocked of ActiveServices.java, there is a possible way to dynamically register a BroadcastReceiver using permissions of System App due to improper input validation. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction ...

PT-2023-21632 · Apple · Apple Macos

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: macOS versions prior to 13.3 Description: A buffer overflow issue was addressed with improved memory handling. This issue may allow an app to cause unexpected system termination or write kernel memory. Recommendations: For macOS versions prio...

Cybersecurity and privacy tips you can teach your 5+-year-old

Everything we teach our kids starts at home--we parents are their first teachers, after all. So, why wait for them to start going to school to start learning about cybersecurity and online privacy? Though it's hardly news that more and more children are being introduced to mobile computing device...

Qatar Spyware

Everyone visiting Qatar for the World Cup needs to install spyware on their phone. Everyone travelling to Qatar during the football World Cup will be asked to download two apps called Ehteraz and Hayya. Briefly, Ehteraz is an covid-19 tracking app, while Hayya is an official World Cup app used to...

Facebook Detects 400 Android and iOS Apps Stealing Users Log-in Credentials

Meta Platforms on Friday disclosed that it had identified over 400 malicious apps on Android and iOS that it said targeted online users with the goal of stealing their Facebook login information. "These apps were listed on the Google Play Store and Apple's App Store and disguised as photo editors...

Google Removes "App Permissions" List from Play Store for New "Data Safety" Section

Following the launch of a new "Data safety" section for the Android app on the Play Store, Google appears to be readying to remove the app permissions list from both the mobile app and the web. The change was highlighted by Esper's Mishaal Rahman earlier this week. The Data safety section, which...

ASB-A-202312327

In parse of RoleParser.java, there is a possible way for default apps to get permissions explicitly denied by the user due to a permissions bypass. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation...

Google to Auto-Reset Unused Android App Permissions for Billions of Devices

Google on Friday said it's bringing an Android 11 feature that auto-resets permissions granted to apps that haven't been used in months, to devices running Android versions 6 and above. The expansion is expected to go live later this year in December 2021 and enabled on Android phones with Google...

Google limits which apps can access the list of installed apps on your device

Apps on Android have been able to infer the presence of specific apps, or even collect the full list of installed apps on the device. What's more, an app can also set to be notified when a new app is installed. Apart from all the usual concerns about misuse of such a data grab, the information ca...

[ASA-202103-4] flatpak: sandbox escape

Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-202103-4 ========================================= Severity: Medium Date : 2021-03-13 CVE-ID : CVE-2021-21381 Package : flatpak Type : sandbox escape Remote : No Link : https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-1678 Summary ======= The package flatpak before version...

CVE-2021-21381 Sandbox escape via special tokens in .desktop file

Flatpak is a system for building, distributing, and running sandboxed desktop applications on Linux. In Flatpack since version 0.9.4 and before version 1.10.2 has a vulnerability in the "file forwarding" feature which can be used by an attacker to gain access to files that would not ordinarily be...

Warning — 5 New Trojanized Android Apps Spying On Users In Pakistan

Cybersecurity researchers took the wraps off a new spyware operation targeting users in Pakistan that leverages trojanized versions of legitimate Android apps to carry out covert surveillance and espionage. Designed to masquerade apps such as the Pakistan Citizen Portal, a Muslim prayer-clock app...

The Android 11 Privacy and Security Features You Should Know

Many of the updates to Google’s mobile OS are behind the scenes—but they can help you control your app permissions and keep your data safe...

PSMDATP - PowerShell Module For Managing Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection

Welcome to the Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection PowerShell module! This module is a collection of easy-to-use cmdlets and functions designed to make it easy to interface with the Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection API. Motivation I created this PowerShell module for MDATP...