Tag Archives: Android

The French newspaper Le Monde said it has received evidence of the involvement of the cybercriminals from APT28 (also known as Fancy Bear) and Sandworm in hacking the email of the campaign headquarters of French President Emmanuel Macron in 2017. Because of the cyberattack, the criminals uploaded tens of thousands …

The publication in TorrentFreak reports that recently the Google Play deleted an Android client of the open-sourced LibreTorren, allegedly due to a violation of the platform rules. The author of LibreTorrent, a Russian developer and student, Yaroslav Pronin, believes that this could be due to the appearance of many clones …

Erez Yalon, information security specialist at Checkmarx company, talked about the discovery of a number of camera problems in smartphones, which are generally tracked under the identifier CVE-2019-2234 and are associated with bypass permissions in Android. Google and Samsung hastened to fix a bug that allowed applications to monitor users …

Hackers can earn as much as they sell vulnerabilities, and even more than information security experts who participate in reward programs for vulnerabilities found, or the so-called “gray hats” that reverse engineer for the government. So says the head of research at Tenable Oliver Rochford. “Vulnerability research is an expensive …

Google, ESET, Lookout, and Zimperium have announced the creation of the App Defense Alliance, whose goal, as the name implies, is to identify malicious applications and protect users. The companies will combine the threat detection mechanisms and ultimately improve the security verification mechanisms that Android applications pass before being published …

Earlier this week, Google introduced the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL smartphones, which will go on sale later this month. However, it seems that the biometric protection of new gadgets could be better. BBC journalist Chris Fox said that the Face Unlock unlock mechanism works even if the owner …

For a while has been circulating information that the Windows operating system, which is one of the most well-known Microsoft products, is no longer a priority business for the company. At the beginning of 2018, was carried out a reorganization, which implied the division of the direction of Windows into …

Cyber-cracker with the pseudonym Gnosticplayers reported about hacking several applications of the largest American online game developer Zynga Inc. The hacker announced the theft of data from 218 million users. The leak affected all Android and iOS users who installed the Words With Friends puzzle game and registered in it …

Citizen Lab specialists discovered a new targeted cybercriminal campaign aimed at owners of iOS and Android devices. Cybercriminals attacked Tibetans, including those who works in the Dalai Lama’s office. A hacker group that researchers called Poison Carp sent malicious links to the victims using the WhatsApp messenger. After clicking on …

The Google security team claims that millions of brand new Android smartphones contain malware that is installed at the factory. If we accept this statement as a fact, there is an additional risk for users, which is much more serious than installing malware from Google Play. As a rule, people …