Samsung Acknowledges Exynos Root Exploit

Samsung downplayed a root exploit vulnerability in some of its Exynos processors, and promised a patch for the flaw, according to a company statement acquired by AndroidCentral. The bug affects devices with Exynos 4210 and 4412 processors and was first made public by an XDA Developers forum membe...

Root Exploit in Devices with Samsung's Exynos Processors

An XDA Developers forum member operating under the handle alephzain has created an exploit that obtains root privileges and enables malicious application installation on the many Samsung devices that contain Exynos 4210 and 4412 processors. The list of devices that use the affected processors...

Trouble for Borderlands 2 Players

Some XBOX Live users have violated the online gaming platform’s code of conduct by using a malicious application that allowed them to permanently kill off the characters of other players in the popular ‘Borderlands 2’ video game. On a forum run by the game’s software developer Gearbox, a communit...

New Internet Explorer zero-day, Can trigger malware automatically

The new zero day exploit has been discovered and being exploited in the wild. This can be used to load malicious application on victim machines running fully patched Windows XP SP3 along with the latest editions of the IE 7 and IE 8 browser and Adobe's Flash software. Eric Romang was examining on...

JVN#93344001: ATOK for Android issue in the access permissions for the learning information file

ATOK for Android provided by JUST Systems contains an issue where another application may access the learning information file which stores user input strings. Impact If a user of the affected product uses other malicious Android application, the learning information file may be obtained. Solutio...

LINE for Android vulnerable in handling of implicit intents

Overview LINE for Android contains a vulnerability in the handling of implicit intents. LINE for Android provided by NHN Japan, is an application for communication with others. LINE for Android contains a vulnerability in the handling of implicit intents. Gaku Mochizuki of Mitsui Bussan Secure...

JVN#67435981: LINE for Android vulnerable in handling of implicit intents

LINE for Android provided by NHN Japan, is an application for communication with others. LINE for Android contains a vulnerability in the handling of implicit intents. Impact Information such as messages sent by LINE may be leaked to a third party through a malicious application. Solution Update...

JVN#88643450: Sleipnir Mobile for Android vulnerable in the WebView class

Sleipnir Mobile for Android is a web browser for Android devices. Sleipnir Mobile for Android contains a vulnerability in the WebView class. Impact If a user of the affected product uses other malicious Android application, information managed by the affected product may be disclosed. Solution...

Android Yome Collection 信息泄露漏洞

CVE ID:CVE-2012-2640 Yome Collection是一款基于Android的应用 Yome Collection会在SD卡上存储IMEI信息，攻击者恶意构建恶意应用，诱使用户安装，在没有READPHONESTATE的权限情况下读取SD卡上的IMEI信息 0 Yome Collection for Android 1.8.3及之前版本 厂商解决方案 用户可联系供应商获得最新的应用版本： http://yomecolle.jp/info/androidoshirase/...

JVN#86044443: iLunascape for Android vulnerable in the WebView class

iLunascape for Android is a web browser for Android devices. iLunascape for Android contains a vulnerability in the WebView class. Impact If a user of the affected product uses other malicious Android application, information managed by the affected product may be disclosed. Solution Update the...

JVN#00000601: TwitRocker2 (Android version) vulnerable in the WebView class

TwitRocker2 is a client software for using twitter. TwitRocker2 Android version contains a vulnerability in the WebView class. Impact If a user of the affected product uses other malicious Android application, information managed by the affected product may be disclosed. Solution Update the...

Malicious Android application stealing banking credentials

Malicious Android application stealing banking credentials A new form of smart Android malware can not only steal your online banking information, but update itself in the future and secretly send contact information stored on your device off to the Bad Guys. Security researchers at McAfee have...

Researchers Discover Android Mobile Botnet 100k Strong

A newly discovered malicious application circulating on third party Android markets in China has created a botnet that contains more than 100,000 compromised devices, researchers report. Researchers from North Carolina State University and Symantec say the malware, dubbed RootStrap NC State...

MS12-003: Vulnerability in Windows Client/Server Run-time Subsystem Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (2646524)

The Windows Client/Server Run-time Subsystem CSRSS on the remote host has a privilege escalation vulnerability that can be triggered when processing a sequence of specially crafted Unicode characters and trying to access the contents of a memory buffer that has not been properly initialized. If t...

The Mystery of Duqu

First of all, we feel it necessary to clarify some of the confusion surrounding the files and their names related to this incident. To get a full understanding of the situation you only need to know that we’re talking about just two malicious programs here at a minimum – the main module and a...

Facebook content restrictions bypass Vulnerability

Facebook content restrictions bypass Vulnerability Blackhat Academy claims to have found a way to bypass content restrictions on links, as posted on their site and posts put on a user's public wall. Even Security Analysts claim that Facebook was notified of these vulnerabilities on July 31st, 201...

Mozilla Firefox 3.6 < 3.6.23 Multiple Vulnerabilities

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New Cheap Toolkit Makes Anyone a Facebook App Developer

New cheap toolkits give amateur developers the ability to create their own viral Facebook applications, something that’s become a favorite activity of attackers in recent months. One example of a malicious Facebook application that could have easily been created using this toolkit is the ‘Faceboo...

Zeus Variant Targets Mobile Online Banking Apps

Researchers have discovered a variant of the Zeus bot malware that specifically targets users who perform online-banking operations from the mobile phones, playing on the increasingly common use of SMS-based one-time passwords in order to dupe users into loading the malware. The attack begins wit...

IBM Cognos Express Server Backdoor Account Remote Code Execution

Added: 05/25/2010 CVE: CVE-2010-0557 BID: 38084 OSVDB: 62118 Background IBM Cognos Express is an integrated business intelligence BI and planning solution which delivers the essential reporting, analysis, dashboard, scorecard, planning, budgeting and forecasting capabilities that midsize companie...