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 ...

Apps Infected With SonicSpy Spyware Removed From Google Play

Three messaging apps in the Google Play store contained spyware called SonicSpy. According to researchers, the spyware also infected more than 1,000 additional apps hosted at third-party Android app stores. Researchers at Lookout traced the spyware-infected apps to an Iraqi developer identified a...

Apple Fixes 223 Vulnerabilities Across macOS, iOS, Safari

Apple fixed hundreds of bugs, 223 to be exact, across a slate of products including macOS Sierra, iOS, Safari, watchOS, and tvOS on Monday. More than a quarter of the bugs, 40 in macOS Sierra, and 30 in iOS, could lead to arbitrary code execution – in some instances with root privileges, Apple...

Lookout Security & Antivirus - Customized SSL, Dangerous filesystem permissions, MIT license vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Lookout Security & Antivirus published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

Hacking Google Glass with QR Code to sniff user data

Researchers at mobile security firm Lookout discovered a security flaw in Google Glass which allowed them to capture data without the user's knowledge, when the user merely took a photo that captured a malicious QR code. Lookout was able to force Google Glass to silently connect to a Wi-Fi access...

'BadNews' Android Malware downloaded up to 9 million times

It appears as if another malware scare has come to Android. Lookout Security said on Friday that it has discovered a new family of malware called BadNews. Malware that avoided detection and made its way onto the Google Play store has been downloaded around 9 million times by users from all over t...