SMS PVA Part 3: Countries Most Impacted by Service

In this final part, we discuss the countries most affected by SMS PVA services as well as lay out several recommendations to mitigate the risks of such threats...

TeaBot Trojan Haunts Google Play Store, Again

The TeaBot banking trojan – also known as “Anatsa” – has been spotted on the Google Play store, researchers from Cleafy have discovered. The malware – designed to intercept SMS messages and login credentials from unwitting users – affected users of “more than 400 banking and financial apps,...

SMS PVA Part 3: Countries Most Impacted by Service

In this final part, we discuss the countries most affected by SMS PVA services as well as lay out several recommendations to mitigate the risks of such threats...

WordPress WP SMS Plugin for WordPress plugin <= 1.3.6 - Sensitive Information Disclosure vulnerability

Sensitive Information Disclosure vulnerability discovered in WordPress WP SMS Plugin for WordPress plugin versions = 1.3.6. Solution Update the WordPress WP SMS Plugin for WordPress plugin to the latest available version at least 1.3.7...

WordPress Passwordless Login with OTP / SMS & Email – Account Kit plugin <= 1.2.3 - Sensitive Information Disclosure vulnerability

Sensitive Information Disclosure vulnerability discovered in WordPress Passwordless Login with OTP / SMS & Email – Account Kit plugin versions = 1.2.3. Solution No patched version available...

WordPress Passwordless Login with OTP / SMS & Email – Account Kit plugin <= 1.2.3 - Toggle The Debug Mode via Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability

Toggle The Debug Mode via Cross-Site Request Forgery CSRF vulnerability discovered in WordPress Passwordless Login with OTP / SMS & Email – Account Kit plugin versions = 1.2.3. Solution No patched version available...

WordPress Ultimate SMS Notifications for WooCommerce plugin <= 1.8.1 - Sensitive Information Disclosure vulnerability

Sensitive Information Disclosure vulnerability discovered in WordPress Ultimate SMS Notifications for WooCommerce plugin versions = 1.8.1. Solution Update the WordPress Ultimate SMS Notifications for WooCommerce plugin to the latest available version at least 1.8.4...

WordPress WP SMS Plugin for WordPress plugin <= 1.3.6 - Toggle The Debug Mode via Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability

Toggle The Debug Mode via Cross-Site Request Forgery CSRF vulnerability discovered in WordPress WP SMS Plugin for WordPress plugin versions = 1.3.6. Solution Update the WordPress WP SMS Plugin for WordPress plugin to the latest available version at least 1.3.7...

WordPress Ultimate SMS Notifications for WooCommerce plugin <= 1.8.1 - Toggle The Debug Mode via Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability

Toggle The Debug Mode via Cross-Site Request Forgery CSRF vulnerability discovered in WordPress Ultimate SMS Notifications for WooCommerce plugin versions = 1.8.1. Solution Update the WordPress Ultimate SMS Notifications for WooCommerce plugin to the latest available version at least 1.8.4...

SMS PVA Part 2: Underground Service for Cybercriminals

In part two of this blog entry, we further investigate the innings of smspva.net and discuss the impact and implications of such services...

CVE-2022-23835

The Visual Voice Mail VVM application through 2022-02-24 for Android allows persistent access if an attacker temporarily controls an application that has the READSMS permission, and reads an IMAP credentialing message that is by design not displayed to the victim within the AOSP SMS/MMS messaging...

CVE-2022-23835

The Visual Voice Mail VVM application through 2022-02-24 for Android allows persistent access if an attacker temporarily controls an application that has the READSMS permission, and reads an IMAP credentialing message that is by design not displayed to the victim within the AOSP SMS/MMS messaging...

CVE-2022-23835

The Visual Voice Mail VVM application through 2022-02-24 for Android allows persistent access if an attacker temporarily controls an application that has the READSMS permission, and reads an IMAP credentialing message that is by design not displayed to the victim within the AOSP SMS/MMS messaging...

CVE-2022-23835

The Visual Voice Mail VVM application through 2022-02-24 for Android allows persistent access if an attacker temporarily controls an application that has the READSMS permission, and reads an IMAP credentialing message that is by design not displayed to the victim within the AOSP SMS/MMS messaging...

Zenly Social-Media App Bugs Allow Account Takeover

Zenly, a social app from Snap that allows users to see the locations of friends and family on a live map, contains a pair of vulnerabilities that could endanger those being tracked. According to the Checkmarx Security Research Team, the bugs are a user-data exposure vulnerability and an...

Visual Voice Mail (VVM) services transmit unencrypted credentials via SMS

Overview Visual Voice Mail VVM services transmit unencrypted credentials via SMS. An attacker with the ability to read SMS messages can obtain VVM IMAP credentials and gain access to VVM data. Description VVM is specified by Open Mobile Terminal Platform-OMPT and is implemented with SMS and IMAP...

SMS PVA Part 1: Underground Service for Cybercriminals

In this three-part blog entry, our team explored SMS PVA, a service built on top of a global bot network that compromises smartphone cybersecurity as we know it...

Hackers Exploiting Infected Android Devices to Register Disposable Accounts

An analysis of SMS phone-verified account PVA services has led to the discovery of a rogue platform built atop a botnet involving thousands of infected Android phones, once again underscoring the flaws with relying on SMS for account validation. SMS PVA services, since gaining prevalence in 2018,...

This Week in Security News - February 18, 2022

SMS PVA services' use of infected Android phones reveals flaws in SMS verification, and 'Russian state-sponsored cyber actors' cited in hacks of U.S. defense contractors...

Alohi: Misconfigured rate limit for SMS phone verification endpoint

One of our rate-limit configurations had a high threshold, allowing attackers to spam request multiple SMS codes by replicating the network request to a phone number before getting blocked...