iPhone SMS spoofing vulnerability disclosure-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Vulnerability description: 4 days ago Pod2g issued a document to Never trust SMS: iOS text spoofin http://pod2g-ios.blogspot.com/2012/08/never-trust-sms-ios-text-spoofing.html The vulnerability can affect all iOS version including the latest iOS 6 beta 4 to. And cloth use the program:...

Fake Flash Player, Laden with Malware, Making Rounds

Scammers have already begun to take advantage of Adobe’s recent decision to remove its Flash Player from Android’s Google Play marketplace. Last week’s removal has prompted scammers to start promoting fake versions of the software to unsuspecting smartphone owners. While researching the scamware,...

Apple iOS SMS伪造漏洞

Apple iOS是一款苹果公司开发的移动设备上的操作系统。 Apple iOS上的SMS存在安全漏洞，允许攻击者获取敏感信息或进行伪造攻击。 SMS消息的文本负载中，UDH User Data Header段是一个可选的，但定义了很多手机不兼容的高级功能。其中有个选项允许用户更改文本的回复地址，如果目的手机兼容此消息，并且如果接收者尝试回复文本，那么他就不会回应原来的号码，而是指定的那个。大多数运营商不会检查这部分消息，这意味着攻击者可以任意指定此段，如修改为911或其他号码。 要利用这个SMS漏洞，需要攻击者可以RAW PDU格式发送文本。 0 Apple iOS 厂商解决方案...

SMSZombie Malware Infecting Android Devices, Stealing Money

A nasty new piece of malware that has the ability to steal money from users’ via fraudulent SMS payments has shown up in a Chinese Android market and researchers say it’s infected more than 500,000 victims. The SMSZombie malware is being hidden inside apps on the app market and once it’s on a...

Serious Security Flaw : iPhone Bug Allows SMS Spoofing

A rather serious security flaw in the iPhone's SMS messaging system has been discovered and revealed by well-known security researcher and jailbreak extraordinaire 'pod2g'. Security flaw affecting all iPhones that he says could facilitate hackers or thieves to access your personal information. Th...

Researcher Finds iPhone Bug Allows SMS Spoofing

The iPhone SMS app contains a quirky bug that could allow someone to send a user a text message that appears to come from any number that the sender specifies. The researcher who discovered the bug said that it could be used by attackers to spoof messages from a bank or credit card company and se...

Zeus malware targeting BlackBerry and Android devices

Security researchers at Kaspersky Lab have discovered five new samples of the ZeuS-in-the-Mobile ZitMo malware package, targeting Android and BlackBerry devices. Zitmo Zeus in the mobile is the name given to the mobile versions of Zeus, and it's been around for a couple of years already, mostly...

OpFake, FakeInst Android Malware Variants Continue to Resist Detection

Android devices have remained a constant target of attacks over the last quarter thanks in part to new variants from the FakeInst and OpFake families of malware. According to the latest version of the F-Secure Mobile Threat Report, the firm found 5033 malicious Android application packages APKs, ...

Zeus Comes to the BlackBerry

Researchers have found several samples of a new version of the mobile version of the Zeus malware, with these newest ones targeting the BlackBerry platform. BlackBerry has not been a common target for attackers, despite the high-value user base of corporate executives and government officials, bu...

CVE-2012-3887

AirDroid before 1.0.7 beta uses a cleartext base64 format for data transfer that is documented as an "Encrypted Transmission" feature, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by sniffing the local wireless network, as demonstrated by the SMS message content sent to the...

Information disclosure

AirDroid before 1.0.7 beta uses a cleartext base64 format for data transfer that is documented as an "Encrypted Transmission" feature, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by sniffing the local wireless network, as demonstrated by the SMS message content sent to the...

CVE-2012-3887: Undefined Security Weakness

AirDroid before 1.0.7 beta uses a cleartext base64 format for data transfer that is documented as an "Encrypted Transmission" feature, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by sniffing the local wireless network, as demonstrated by the SMS message content sent to the...

PT-2012-5061

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions AirDroid versions prior to 1.0.7 beta Description The issue allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by sniffing the local wireless network. This is due to the use of a cleartext base64 format for data transfer, which is...

New OpFake Android Malware Entices Users With Opera Mini Browser

There is a new variant of the OpFake mobile malware making the rounds, and this version comes bundled with a version of the legitimate Opera Mini mobile browser. The malware targets Android phones and steals money from victims by sending SMS messages without the user’s knowledge to premium-rate...

Android Dr. Web Anti-Virus信息泄露漏洞

Android Dr.Web Anti-virus是一款基于安卓平台的杀毒软件。 当处理com.drweb.activities.antispam.CursorActivit类中的SQL查询时存在错误，可被利用泄露呼叫历史和SMS消息。 0 Dr.Web Anti-virus for Android 7.x 厂商解决方案 Dr.Web Anti-virus for Android 7.00.2已经修复此漏洞，建议用户下载使用： http://news.drweb.com/show/?c=5&i=2573&lng=en...

Microsoft: Fake Skype For Android App Linked To SMS Scams

Microsoft researchers are warning about a new Trojan horse program for Android mobile devices that sends out premium SMS messages once installed. The Trojan is just the latest example of malware that is installed by unwitting users who frequent phony mobile application marketplaces designed to lo...

Dr.Web antivirus SQL injection

SQL injection in com.drweb.activities.antispam.CursorActivity class of android antivirus allows untrusted applications to access SMS archive...

More Malware Using a Remote Payload Discovered on Google Play

Symantec is warning of new malware masquerading as two apps on Google Play that claimed up to 100,000 victims before the Trojan was removed. Both “Super Mario Bros.” and “GTA 3 Moscow City” racked up 50,000 to 100,000 downloads after being posted June 24 on Google Play. “What is most interesting...

New Android Malware Family Infects 100,000

A new family of malware has infected some 100,000 Android devices via malicious application downloads on nine separate third-party markets in China, according to researchers at the mobile security provider TrustGo. The researchers are calling this strain ‘Trojan!MMarketPay.A@Android’...

New E-Banking Trojans Target Android Users

The security firm Trusteer reports that new Web-based attacks are targeting Android smartphone users in a campaign to circumvent two-factor sign-on features used by many banks to protect account holders. Writing on the Trusteer blog on Tuesday, CTO Amit Klein of Trusteer said that researchers the...