Mobile Risks Boom in a Post-Perimeter World

Cybercriminals are now taking a mobile-first approach to hacking the enterprise. Case in point, last month a half-billion Apple iOS users were stung by an attack exploiting an unpatched bug in Chrome for iOS. Crooks managed to hijack user session and redirect traffic to malicious websites...

CVE-2017-15841

When HOST sends a Special command ID packet, Controller triggers a RAM Dump and FW reset in Snapdragon Mobile in version SD 410/12, SD 425, SD 427, SD 430, SD 435, SD 450, SD 615/16/SD 415, SD 625, SD 650/52, SD 820, SD 835, SnapdragonHighMed2016...

Android Q — Google Adds New Mobile Security and Privacy Features

Google has recently released the first beta version of Android Q, the next upcoming version of Google's popular mobile operating system, with a lot of new privacy improvements and other security enhancements. Android Q, where Q has not yet been named, offers more control over installed apps, thei...

A Mobile App Scanner is Not Just Another App

Mobile applications assist us mightily with our daily tasks. They increase our productivity with anywhere, anytime, high-functioning tools, and they help us communicate and share information with family members, friends, and co-workers. Every day, the rapidly evolving app market brings us more ap...

Threatpost Poll: Over Half of Firms Asked Struggle with Mobile Security

A Threatpost survey of readers found over half of respondents don’t feel sufficiently prepared to prevent or handle a security incident stemming from mobile devices in their firm. The informal survey results should serve as harbinger for security professionals in light of the fact that 80 percent...

Threatpost Poll: Is It Impossible to Secure Mobile Devices?

Between applications and operating systems, a slew of mobile threats continue to pop up – and when it comes to security, it’s getting harder and harder for enterprises to keep up. Just in the past week, Apple patched a massive flaw in its FaceTime allowing a bad actor to eavesdrop on victims; whi...

CVE-2018-5880

The CVE-2018-5880 entry affects Qualcomm Snapdragon devices (mobile and wear) across multiple chips (e.g., MDM9206, MDM9607, SD 210/212/205, 425, 427, 430, 435, 450, 625, 636, 835, SDA660, SDM630, SDM660). The vulnerability stems from an improper data length check when processing an event report ...

Google Play Removes Malicious Malware-Ridden Apps

Google Play has removed two malicious apps that were infecting devices with a notorious banking malware bent on scooping up victim’s credentials. The two apps, Currency Converter and BatterySaverMobo, purported to be useful mobile tools that help users calculate currency and optimize mobile batte...

Google Removes 85 Adware Apps That Infect 9 Million Android Users

Google has removed 85 apps from its Play Store after finding out that they were pushing aggressive, full-screen adware to Android users. With the rise in the mobile market, Adware has become one of the most prevalent mobile threats in the world. Adware has traditionally been used to aggressively...

Information disclosure

Information leak in UIM API debug messages in snapdragon mobile and snapdragon wear in versions MDM9206, MDM9607, MDM9615, MDM9625, MDM9635M, MDM9645, MDM9650, MDM9655, MSM8909W, SD 210/SD 212/SD 205, SD 410/12, SD 425, SD 427, SD 430, SD 435, SD 450, SD 615/16/SD 415, SD 625, SD 650/52, SD 800, ...

CVE-2017-18322

CVE-2017-18322 affects Qualcomm-based Snapdragon mobile/wear platforms, leaking cryptographic key material via WCDMA debug messages. Affected: MDM9206, MDM9607, MDM9615, MDM9625, MDM9635M, MDM9640, MDM9645, MDM9650, MDM9655, MSM8909W, and various SD/SoC lines (e.g., SD 210/212/205, 410/12, 425, 4...

CVE-2017-18323

CVE-2017-18323 involves cryptographic key material leakage in TDSCDMA RRC debug messages affecting Qualcomm Snapdragon components across multiple platforms (e.g., MDM9206, MDM9607, MDM9615, MDM9635M, MDM9640, MDM9645, MDM9650, MDM9655, MSM8909W, MSM8996AU) and various SD/SoC families (e.g., SD 21...

CVE-2017-18324

Cryptographic key material leakage in debug messages affecting GERAN on Snapdragon mobile/wear (various MDM/SD/SM/SDX devices). Root cause: leakage of keys in debug output for affected Qualcomm components; CVE-2017-18324. Consequences: information disclosure with partial confidentiality impact as...

CVE-2017-18326

CVE-2017-18326 affects Qualcomm Snapdragon mobile and Snapdragon Wear modem components (e.g., MDM9607, MDM9615, MDM9625, MDM9635M, MDM9640, MDM9645, MDM9650, MDM9655, MSM8909W, SD 210/212/205, SD 410/12, SD 425, SD 427, SD 430, SD 435, SD 450, SD 615/16/SD 415, SD 625, SD 636, SD 650/52, SD 800, ...

SAP Fiori Client Design Vulnerability

SAP Fiori Client is a client program from SAP Germany for running the SAP Fiori Launchpad on mobile devices. A security vulnerability exists in SAP Fiori Client. An attacker can exploit the vulnerability to remove the SSO configuration with the help of an arbitrary Android application...

CVE-2018-11846

The use of a non-time-constant memory comparison operation can lead to timing/side channel attacks in Snapdragon Mobile in version SD 210/SD 212/SD 205, SD 845, SD 850...

CVE-2018-11850

CVE-2018-11850 describes a buffer flow caused by a missing check on the remaining length parameter when processing the scan start command, affecting Qualcomm Snapdragon components across a broad range of devices (Snapdragon Automobile, Mobile, Wear) and SoCs such as MDM92xx, MSM89xx, QCA6xxx, SD ...

CVE-2017-18280

CVE-2017-18280 : In Snapdragon platforms (Automobile, Mobile, Wear) across listed SoCs, a trusted application that has opened an SPI/I2C interface to a device could allow another trusted application to read data via the SPI/I2C read function. The initial disclosures list the affected families (e....

A week in security (September 10 – 16)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we assessed the security of a portable router, identified ways to waste a scammer's time, named the many faces of omnichannel fraud, questioned the security of 2FAs, profiled a massive tech support scam operation, and exposed a new HMRC phishing campaign. Other...

MobSF (Mobile Security Framework) v1.0 - Mobile (Android/iOS) Automated Pen-Testing Framework

Mobile Security Framework MobSF is an automated, all-in-one mobile application Android/iOS/Windows pen-testing framework capable of performing static, dynamic and malware analysis. It can be used for effective and fast security analysis of Android, iOS and Windows mobile applications and support...