CopyCat Malware Infected 14M Android Devices, Rooted 8M, in 2016

A family of Android malware was so successful that at its peak, over the course of two months last year, it infected 14 million devices and rooted more than half of them, roughly eight million devices. Researchers said early Tuesday the strain of malware, dubbed CopyCat, helped its authors earn...

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The Android Security Bulletin contains details of security vulnerabilities affecting Android devices. Security patch levels of July 05, 2017 or later address all of these issues. Refer to the Pixel and Nexus update schedule to learn how to check a device's security patch level. Partners were...

Svpeng Behind a Spike in Mobile Ransomware

The sting of mobile ransomware grew more painful in 2017 with attacks increasing a whopping 3.5 times in the first quarter compared to the same time a year ago. Behind those attacks were a quarter million Trojan installation packages targeting Android devices that sought to extort between $100 to...

ISSUE: Policy state pending or failed for Android devices

This purpose of this article is to help Xenmobile administrator troubleshoot issues related to Android policy deployment failures and also provide additional information on settings up XMS server with right values...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-0643

A remote denial of service vulnerability in Mediaserver could enable an attacker to use a specially crafted file to cause a device hang or reboot. This issue is rated as High severity due to the possibility of remote denial of service. Product: Android. Versions: 5.0.2, 5.1.1, 6.0, 6.0.1, 7.0,...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-0641

A remote denial of service vulnerability in libvpx in Mediaserver could enable an attacker to use a specially crafted file to cause a device hang or reboot. This issue is rated as High severity due to the possibility of remote denial of service. Product: Android. Versions: 4.4.4, 5.0.2, 5.1.1, 6....

Access camera role from gallery via Secure Mail

Users wanted to access camera role to attach to an email in android devices. In Secure Mail, if we set the Inbound Document Exchange open in to Restricted, on any Android device, our only options when using Secure Mail to attach a photo are – Last photo taken or to use the camera to take a pictur...

proxy server seeing Android traffic from client IP

Your proxy server may see the client IP from Android devices where as iOS it sees and expects the subnet IP of the NS. How to filter traffic using the Subnet IP address for Android Devices?...

Google Android Qualcomm Wi-fi Driver Information Disclosure Vulnerability (CNVD-2017-10564)

Google Android is a Linux-based open source operating system jointly developed by Google and the Open Handheld Alliance OHA. An information disclosure vulnerability exists in the Qualcomm Wi-Fi driver in Android on Nexus 5X, Pixel and Pixel XL devices. An attacker can exploit the vulnerability to...

Google Adds New Behavior-Based Malware Scanner To Every Android Device

In order to keep its billions of users safe, Google has introduced another security defense for its Android devices, called Google Play Protect. Google Play Protect, which is part of the Google Play Store app, uses machine learning and app usage analysis to weed out the dangerous and malicious...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-0599

A remote denial of service vulnerability in libhevc in Mediaserver could enable an attacker to use a specially crafted file to cause a device hang or reboot. This issue is rated as High severity due to the possibility of remote denial of service. Product: Android. Versions: 6.0, 6.0.1, 7.0, 7.1.1...

Android Qualcomm bootloader privilege escalation vulnerability

Android on Google Pixel XL, etc. is an open source Linux-based operating system for Google Pixel XL, etc. smart devices developed by Google Inc. and the Open Handheld Alliance OHA.Qualcomm bootloader is one of the programs used in the... Qualcomm bootloader is a bootloader developed by Qualcomm...

Android Qualcomm bootloader boost vulnerability

Android on Google Pixel XL, etc. is an open source Linux-based operating system for Google Pixel XL, etc. smart devices developed by Google Inc. and the Open Handheld Alliance OHA.Qualcomm bootloader is one of the programs used in the... Qualcomm bootloader is a bootloader developed by Qualcomm...

Android Qualcomm camera driver information disclosure vulnerability

Android on Nexus 5X, etc. is an open source Linux-based operating system developed by Google and the Open Handheld Alliance OHA for the Nexus 5X, etc. Qualcomm camera driver is a Qualcomm-developed camera driver. Qualcomm camera driver is a camera driver developed by Qualcomm. An information...

BlackBerry Smartphone Broadcom Wi-Fi driver for Android Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability

BlackBerry smartphones are smartphones manufactured by BlackBerry.Broadcom Wi-Fi driver for Android is a Broadcom-developed Wi-Fi driver module for use in Android. A security vulnerability exists in the Broadcom Wi-Fi driver for Android used in BlackBerry smartphones prior to Build AAE570. A remo...

CVE-2017-7978

Samsung Android devices with L5.0/5.1, M6.0, and N7.x software allow attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading a world-readable log file after an unexpected reboot. The Samsung ID is SVE-2017-8290...

Information disclosure

Samsung Android devices with L5.0/5.1, M6.0, and N7.x software allow attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading a world-readable log file after an unexpected reboot. The Samsung ID is SVE-2017-8290...

CVE-2016-6726

Unspecified vulnerability in Qualcomm components in Android on Nexus 6 and Android One devices...

Wave of Java-Based RATs Target Tax Filers

Spammers are spreading Java-based remote access Trojans, known as jRATs, targeting tax filers with attachments named “IRS Updates.jar” and “ImportantPDF.jar” that, if executed, give attackers access to compromised endpoints. Zscaler, which is tracking the jRATs, believes some of the campaigns cou...

Broadcom: Multiple memory corruptions in "dhd_pno_process_anqpo_result" (CVE-2017-0572)

Detailed analysis of reference : the https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.tw/2017/04/over-air-exploiting-broadcoms-wi-fi4.html the first part https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.tw/2017/04/over-air-exploiting-broadcoms-wi-fi11.html Part II Broadcom produces the Wi-Fi HardMAC SoCs which are used to...