By:Zuk Avraham Follow Zuk Avraham (@ihackbanme)Joshua Drake Follow Joshua Drake (@jduck)Nikias Bassen Follow Nikias Bassen (@pimskeks) The last thirty days proven to be yet another exciting time for the mobile security ecosystem. Apple and Google released updates for their respective mobile operating systems that fix several critical issues — including […]
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Zimperium’s z9 Engine Detected the Recent Adware with Rooting Capabilities without an Update
Last week, a new strain of trojan adware was discovered, bearing automatic device-rooting capabilities that make it almost impossible to remove from affected Android devices. This malware, dubbed Shuanet is another example of increasing sophistication in mobile threats. Shuanet is the third family in a trilogy of recently discovered malicious […]
zYiRemoval – Free tool to remove YiSpecter
By:Nikias Bassen Follow Nikias Bassen (@pimskeks) An enterprise security vendor, Palo Alto Networks, followed up on a threat discovered by Cheetah Mobile and Qihoo360, and identified a malware spreading through social media and other channels. This malware, named YiSpecter, is abusing enterprise code signing to trick the user into installing […]
Zimperium zLabs is Raising the Volume: New Vulnerability Processing MP3/MP4 Media.
By:Zuk Avraham Follow Zuk Avraham (@ihackbanme)Joshua Drake Follow Joshua Drake (@jduck)Nikias Bassen Follow Nikias Bassen (@pimskeks) Following our discovery of vulnerabilities in the Stagefright library in April, Zimperium Mobile Threat Protection, zLabs VP of Research Joshua J. Drake continued researching media processing in Android. His continued research, which focused on remote […]
iOS 9 security: A reality check
By zLabs :: Jimmy Shah Apple has released iOS 9 with a large number of security fixes. Zimperium recommends that iOS users install the latest iOS update. There are 60+ vulnerabilities present in iOS 8.x that are fixed in the upgrade to iOS 9. The vulnerabilities include the ones that are […]
The Latest on Stagefright: CVE-2015-1538 Exploit is Now Available for Testing Purposes
More than a month has passed since Zimperium first broke the news of zLabs’ VP of Platform Research and Exploitation Joshua J. Drake’s discovery of multiple critical vulnerabilities in Android’s media library – libstagefright. In that time frame, the number and importance of the events that have unfolded is nothing […]
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