Huawei Honor V9 play forensic bypass vulnerability

Huawei Honor V9 play is a smartphone from Huawei Huawei. A forensic bypass vulnerability exists in the "phone retrieval" feature of the Huawei Honor V9 play. The vulnerability exists because the device does not reasonably implement the authentication feature. An attacker can exploit this...

Red Bull Free Skiing - Base64 encoded String, Dangerous filesystem permissions, Exported ContentProvider vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Red Bull Free Skiing published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

A week in security (November 13 – November 19)

Last week, we gave you some tips for the inevitable online chaos that is Cyber Monday, explained how "trusted" root certificates can sometimes be anything but, and explored the strange world of catphishing. We also pulled apart some malware found on Google Play and laid out the specifics of the...

Android malware found in hundreds of music player apps on Play Store

By Waqas Its just another day with just another news explaining the This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Android malware found in hundreds of music player apps on Play Store...

BankBot Returns On Play Store – A Never Ending Android Malware Story

Even after so many efforts by Google for making its Play Store away from malware, shady apps somehow managed to fool its anti-malware protections and infect people with malicious software. A team of researchers from several security firms has uncovered two new malware campaigns targeting Google...

New Android Trojan malware discovered in Google Play

A new piece of mobile malware has been discovered in Google Play masquerading as multiple apps: an alarm clock app, a QR scanner app, a compass app, a photo editor app, an Internet speed test app, and a file explorer app. According to Google Play data, all were last updated between October and...

Foscam IP Video Camera Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (CNVD-2017-34271)

Foscam C1 Indoor HD Camera is a wireless HD IP camera from Foscam China. A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the UPnP implementation in the Foscam C1 Indoor HD Camera. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to overwrite arbitrary data with a specially crafted UPnP discovery response...

Threatpost News Wrap Podcast for Nov. 10

Threatpost editors Mike Mimoso and Tom Spring discuss the week’s information security news, including Chris Valasek’s and Charlie Miller’s return to the security speaking rounds, a phony WhatsApp download pulled from Google Play, a deep dive into the recent cloud-based storage leaks, and the rece...

DDoS-for-Hire Service Launches Mobile App

In May 2013 KrebsOnSecurity wrote about Ragebooter, a service that paying customers can use to launch powerful distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks capable of knocking individuals and Web sites offline. The owner of Ragebooter subsequently was convicted in 2016 of possessing child...

Google just can not get rid of BankBot malware from Play Store

By Waqas Google is trying its best to make Chrome secure again, This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Google just can not get rid of BankBot malware from Play Store...

Phony WhatsApp used Unicode to slip under Google’s radar

After a troubling week for Google not so long ago, the company is under the spotlight once more for missing another app that, after further investigations by several members of Reddit, was found laden with adware. This app, which was called "Update WhatsApp Messenger," used the logo and developer...

DATA WING - External URLs, Possible privilege escalation, SD-card access vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application DATA WING published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

LinkedIn - Dynamic Code Loading, Exported components, External URLs vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application LinkedIn published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

1M Downloads Later, Google Pulls Phony WhatsApp From Google Play

Google has removed a phony WhatsApp download from Google Play and suspended the developer’s account, but not before the ad-spewing app was downloaded more than one million times. The unwanted app, called Update WhatsApp Messenger, was disclosed by a handful of Redditors over the weekend who said...

Fake WhatsApp On Google Play Store Downloaded By Over 1 Million Android Users

Cybercriminals are known to take advantage of everything that's popular among people in order to spread malware, and Google's official Play Store has always proved no less than an excellent place for hackers to get their job done. Yesterday some users spotted a fake version of the most popular...

play-agricola.com XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-385627 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| play-agricola.com Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Remediation Guide:| OWASP XSS Prevention Cheat...

Three Monero Mining Malware Apps Found on Play Store

By Waqas Hackers, website owners or even cybercriminals are finding new ways This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Three Monero Mining Malware Apps Found on Play Store...

A week in security (October 23 – October 29)

Welcome back to "A week in security." Last week, we took a look at how deleted files can be recovered, explored the BadRabbit ransomware plague attacking Eastern Europe including a deep dive into the code, and talked about what it takes to work in security. One of our researchers, who is a PhD...

Stable Channel Update for Chrome OS

The Stable channel has been updated to 62.0.3202.74 Platform version: 9901.54.0/1 for most Chrome OS devices. This build contains a number of bug fixes and security updates. Systems will be receiving updates over the next several days. New Features Kerberos SSO integration for Active Directory...

Android Private Internet Access Denial Of Service

Original post here: http://wwws.nightwatchcybersecurity.com/2017/10/25/advisory-pia-android-app-cve-2017-15882/ SUMMARY The Android application provided by Private Internet Access PIA VPN service can be crashed by downloading a large file containing a list of current VPN servers. This can be...