The Everyday Cyber Threat Landscape: Trends from 2019 to 2020

The past 12 months have been another bumper year for cybercrime affecting everyday users of digital technology. Trend Micro blocked more than 26.8 billion of these threats in the first half of 2019 alone. The bad news is that there are many more out there waiting to steal your personal data for...

CVE-2019-19690

Trend Micro Mobile Security for Android Consumer versions 10.3.1 and below on Android 8.0+ has an issue in which an attacker could bypass the product's App Password Protection feature...

CVE-2019-19690

Trend Micro Mobile Security for Android Consumer versions 10.3.1 and below on Android 8.0+ has an issue in which an attacker could bypass the product's App Password Protection feature...

Design/Logic Flaw

Trend Micro Mobile Security for Android Consumer versions 10.3.1 and below on Android 8.0+ has an issue in which an attacker could bypass the product's App Password Protection feature...

CVE-2019-19690

CVE-2019-19690 affects Trend Micro Mobile Security for Android (Consumer) versions 10.3.1 and earlier on Android 8.0+. The vulnerability enables bypass of the product’s App Password Protection feature. Details on root cause, affected files/components, exploit steps, or concrete remediation are no...

Android Ups the Mobile Security Ante with Default TLS Encryption

A full 80 percent of Android apps are encrypting their traffic by default, according to a Transport Layer Security TLS adoption update from Google. That percentage is even greater for apps targeting Android 9 and higher, with 90 percent of those encrypting traffic by default, the tech giant said ...

Unpatched Strandhogg Android Vulnerability Actively Exploited in the Wild

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new unpatched vulnerability in the Android operating system that dozens of malicious mobile apps are already exploiting in the wild to steal users' banking and other login credentials and spy on their activities. Dubbed Strandhogg, the vulnerability...

Eset Mobile Security 5.2.18.0 Lock Bypass

Exploit Title: Bypassing Eset Mobile Security App Using Android's Split-Screen Feature Date: 11.11.2019 Exploit Author: Ferhat Cil linkedin:ferhatcil Vendor Homepage: Eset Version: 5.2.18.0 Tested on: Android 9.1.0.142, Android 8.1.0 Security App let's you lock your apps on your phone, but if you...

SIM Cards in 29 Countries Vulnerable to Remote Simjacker Attacks

Until now, I'm sure you all might have heard of the SimJacker vulnerability disclosed exactly a month ago that affects a wide range of SIM cards and can remotely be exploited to hack into any mobile phone just by sending a specially crafted binary SMS. If you are unaware, the name "SimJacker" has...

Google Android MNH Mobilization Vulnerability (CNVD-2019-36638)

Android is a Linux-based open source operating system from Google and the Open Handset Alliance OHA in the U.S. MNH driver is one of the MNH drivers. An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the MNH driver in Google Android. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to elevate privilege...

Google Android Media framework remote code execution vulnerability (CNVD-2019-30325)

Android is a Linux-based open source operating system jointly developed by Google Inc. and the Open Handheld Alliance OHA for short. A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the Media framework component of Google Android 10. A remote attacker can exploit the vulnerability to execute code...

Information disclosure

A vulnerability in Cisco Webex Meetings Mobile iOS could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to gain unauthorized read access to sensitive data by using an invalid Secure Sockets Layer SSL certificate. The vulnerability is due to insufficient SSL certificate validation by the affected...

FAKE APPS!—courtesy of Agent Smith

As new mobile malware sweeps the globe, here’s how to keep your device secure. We’re spending more and more of our lives online and for most of us the door to this digital world is our smartphone. It’s the first thing we look at when we wake up and the last thing we check at night. It’s where we ...

CVE-2019-9140

When processing Deeplink scheme, Happypoint mobile app 6.3.19 and earlier versions doesn't check Deeplink URL correctly. This could lead to javascript code execution, url redirection, sensitive information disclosure. An attacker can exploit this issue by enticing an unsuspecting user to open a...

How to cost-effectively manage and secure a mobile ecosystem

Today’s post was written by Roxane Suau, Vice President of Marketing for Pradeo. In the corporate environment, mobile devices and applications are at the center of communications, enhancing collaborators’ productivity with 24/7 access to information. But at the same time, they represent thousands...

CVE-2018-11819

CVE-2018-11819 is a use-after-free style issue in Qualcomm/ Snapdragon WLAN code caused by handling multiple ACS scan requests concurrently. Affected products span Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Consumer IoT, Snapdragon Industrial IoT, and Snapdragon Mobile platforms (e.g., MDM9206, MDM9607, MDM9640...

Mobile Risks Boom in a Post-Perimeter World

Cybercriminals are now taking a mobile-first approach to hacking the enterprise. Case in point, last month a half-billion Apple iOS users were stung by an attack exploiting an unpatched bug in Chrome for iOS. Crooks managed to hijack user session and redirect traffic to malicious websites...

CVE-2017-15841

When HOST sends a Special command ID packet, Controller triggers a RAM Dump and FW reset in Snapdragon Mobile in version SD 410/12, SD 425, SD 427, SD 430, SD 435, SD 450, SD 615/16/SD 415, SD 625, SD 650/52, SD 820, SD 835, SnapdragonHighMed2016...

Android Q — Google Adds New Mobile Security and Privacy Features

Google has recently released the first beta version of Android Q, the next upcoming version of Google's popular mobile operating system, with a lot of new privacy improvements and other security enhancements. Android Q, where Q has not yet been named, offers more control over installed apps, thei...

A Mobile App Scanner is Not Just Another App

Mobile applications assist us mightily with our daily tasks. They increase our productivity with anywhere, anytime, high-functioning tools, and they help us communicate and share information with family members, friends, and co-workers. Every day, the rapidly evolving app market brings us more ap...