Android malware loaded with Linux kernel privilege escalation exploit

Malware authors are notorious for quickly leveraging new exploits in the public domain for nefarious purposes. A recently discovered Linux kernel Local privilege escalation exploit, which allows attackers to gain complete control of infected devices, has been ported to the Android smartphone...

New Android malware forwards incoming messages to hacker

A new type of Android malware that can intercept text messages and forwarding to hackers is discovered by the Russian firm Doctor Web. This is a very serious threat to users, because using this malware attackers can easily get two factor authentication code of your Email or bank accounts. The...

Android Malware that can DDoS Attacks from your smartphone

The Russian anti-virus vendor Doctor Web has found a new malicious program for Android which allows hacker groups to carry out mobile denial of service attacks. While it's not entirely clear how the Trojan is spread, researchers suspect that the attackers use social engineering tactics since the...

Android Malware that can DDoS Attacks from your smartphone

The Russian anti-virus vendor Doctor Web has found a new malicious program for Android which allows hacker groups to carry out mobile denial of service attacks. While it’s not entirely clear how the Trojan is spread, researchers suspect that the attackers use social engineering tactics since the...

Hardware based malware steals contacts from all mobile platforms using only the Audio Jack!

Indian Security Research Atul Alex presented his surprise paper at the International Malware Conference, MalCon on what can be termed as the onset of next generation of hardware based malware that can target mobile devices irrespective of Platforms. Typically, one of the largest challenges for...

Design/Logic Flaw

The Samsung and HTC onTouchEvent method implementation for Android on the T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide, HTC Merge, Sprint EVO Shift 4G, HTC ChaCha, AT&T Status, HTC Desire Z, T-Mobile G2, T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide, and Samsung Galaxy S stores touch coordinates in the dmesg buffer, which allows remot...

pidgin: Improper validation of incoming plaintext messages in MSN protocol plug-in

msg.c in the MSN protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.4 does not properly handle crafted characters, which allows remote servers to cause a denial of service application crash by placing these characters in a text/plain message...

Banking System Vulnerability - 3 million bank accounts hacked in Iran

Banking System Vulnerability - 3 million bank accounts hacked in Iran Iran's Central Bank has announced that the electronic information of 3 million customers of 10 Iranian banks have been compromised. These banks now require their customers to change their ATM pin numbers before they can access...

Fake Angry Birds Game spreading Malware from Android Market

Fake Angry Birds Game spreading Malware from Android Market From last week premium rate SMS Trojans surfaced in the Android Market. Google has pulled 22 apps that are masquerading as legitimate versions of popular games like Angry Birds and Cut the Rope. Security researchers have discovered a way...

Sen. Franken Demands Answers From Carrier IQ on Mobile Tracking

The fallout from the controversy surrounding the presence of Carrier IQ’s software on millions of mobile devices on several different platforms has now reached Washington. Sen. Al Franken on Thursday sent a letter to the company, demanding answers to a series of questions about the software and i...

PT-2011-2863 · Pidgin +1 · Pidgin +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Pidgin versions 2.6.0 through 2.7.10 Description: The issue allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service through malformed YMSG notification packets, resulting in a NULL pointer dereference and application crash. Additionall...

Google's security tool infected with trojan !

It's pretty bold and a cunning coup; criminals have installed a trojan in the Android Market Security Tool that Google is distributing to delete the contaminated apps that recently popped up on the Android Market. As users have been told to expect to see the application running on their phones...

Vodafone Network Seized by Egyptian Authorities to Spread Propaganda Via Text Message

Vodafone released a statement yesterday confirming that the authorities in Egypt seized their network to send propaganda text messages to the Egyptian people. Such text messages have been sent since the start of the protests in an attempt to cool tensions among the protestors who are demanding th...

Cybersecurity Experts Create Program That Steals Text Messages !

Two cybersecurity researchers have just taught smartphones a lesson by developing a program that can eavesdrop and steal text messages from any phone on a GSM network – all in about 20 seconds. The Guardian reported that Karsten Nohl and Sylvain Munaut spent a year honing their technology, which...

'SMS of Death' Attacks Can Crash the Simplest of Phones

Malicious text messages can crash many types of mobile phones, including devices by Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Motorola and LG, according to a presentation given at the Chaos Communication Congress hacking conference this week in Berlin. Nicknamed ‘SMS of Death,’ the attacks were outlined by Collin...

MS10-087 Microsoft Word RTF pFragments Stack Buffer Overflow (File Format)

This module exploits a stack-based buffer overflow in the handling of the 'pFragments' shape property within the Microsoft Word RTF parser. All versions of Microsoft Office 2010, 2007, 2003, and XP prior to the release of the MS10-087 bulletin are vulnerable. This module does not attempt to explo...

An Analysis of the BlackBerry Spyware

From Zero in a Bit Chris Eng Yesterday it was reported by various media outlets that a recent BlackBerry software update from Etisalat a UAE-based carrier contained spyware that would intercept emails and text messages and send copies to a central Etisalat server. We decided to take a look to fin...

PT-2008-5523 · Apple · Ios +2

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Apple iPhone OS versions 1.0 through 2.1 iPhone OS for iPod touch versions 1.1 through 2.1 Description: The Passcode Lock feature displays SMS messages when the emergency-call screen is visible. This allows physically proximate attackers to...

CVE-2008-4593

Apple iPhone 2.1 with firmware 5F136, when Require Passcode is enabled and Show SMS Preview is disabled, allows physically proximate attackers to obtain sensitive information by performing an Emergency Call tap and then reading SMS messages on the device screen, aka Apple bug number 6267416...

TOM-Skype Detection

TOM-Skype is a variant of the popular 'Skype' VoIP application done in conjunction with TOM Online, a popular Chinese Internet Provider. The remote version of TOM-Skype filters out some incoming keywords that the official version of Skype does not, and apparently does not guarantee the...