Bug in Anesthesia Respirators Allows Cyber-Tampering

A vulnerability in GE Healthcare’s Aestiva and Aespire anesthesia devices would allow an unauthenticated cybercriminal on the same network as the device to modify gas composition parameters within the devices’ respirator function, thus changing sensor readings for gas density. According to GE...

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...

Design/Logic Flaw

In device configuration data, there is an improperly configured setting. This could lead to remote disclosure of device location. User interaction is not needed for exploitation. Product: Android. Versions: Android-9. Android ID: A-112159033...

Phishing Spy Campaign Targets Top Mideast Officials

Researchers have discovered a phishing campaign that infected Android devices with custom surveillance-ware bent on extracting data from top officials, primarily in the Middle East. Researchers at Lookout Security told Threatpost that the tool, dubbed Stealth Mango, has been used to collect over ...

iBackDoor: High-Risk Code Hits iOS Apps

Introduction FireEye mobile researchers recently discovered potentially “backdoored” versions of an ad library embedded in thousands of iOS apps originally published in the Apple App Store. The affected versions of this library embedded functionality in iOS apps that used the library to display...

Security flaw in 3G could allow anyone to track your smartphone

New privacy threats have been uncovered by security researchers that could allow every device operating on 3G networks to be tracked, according to research from the University of Birmingham with collaboration from the Technical University of Berlin. Researchers said that standard off-the-shelf...