We see a lot of confusion in the market about precisely what it means to jailbreak a device–and that confusion could lead to serious problems, especially regarding a hacker performing a jailbreak to attack a device. The security industry is notoriously full of acronyms, buzzwords and generally opaque jargon. Here at […]
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Zero Packet Inspection
Introduction In this blogpost I describe the history of z9, our detection engine. I will show its performance over reference data sets commonly used in the machine learning community. I’ll then describe how we apply it to detect networks attacks without any type of packet inspection. Eventually, we encourage you to participate by helping […]
zIPS and “Android for Work”
zIPS, the leading mobile threat defense solution, now provides tailored protection for Android for Work use cases. Enterprise IT and security professionals have been working with corporate end-users for decades to keep their desktops, laptops and servers secure. So you might think that those professionals would have a lock on […]
Zimperium and Deutsche Telekom Offer Mobile Security to German Bundestag Elections
Here at Zimperium, we spend all day, every day, obsessing about mobile security and how we can provide a secure mobile experience. That’s not just because we are driven. It’s because the threats to mobile devices are both immediate and real. Every time someone uses an iPhone or an Android […]
NDAY-2017-0101: iCloud Information Leak
By: Zuk Avraham Follow Zuk Avraham (@ihackbanme) Nicolas Trippar Follow Nicolas Trippar (@ntrippar) zNID: NDAY-2017-0101 CVE: Unknown Type: Information Disclosure Platform: iOS < 10.3 Device type: iPhone, iPod iOS bulletin: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207617 Public release date: 25th of May, 2017 Credit: Anonymous Download Exploit (password zimperium_ndays) Vulnerability Details An XPC service com.apple.coreservices.appleid.authentication can be accessed […]
N-Days Exploits: NDAY-2017-0103 Arbitrary kernel write in sys_oabi_epoll_wait
By: Zuk Avraham Follow Zuk Avraham (@ihackbanme) Nicolas Trippar Follow Nicolas Trippar (@ntrippar) zNID: NDAY-2017-0103 CVE: CVE-2016-3857 Type: Elevation of Privileges Platform: Android < 6.0 Device type: Huawei MT7-UL00, Nexus 7 Zimperium protection: Detected the exploit without an update. Zimperium partners and customers do not need to take any action to detect […]
Enterprise Mobile Security on Microsoft Azure
Zimperium now integrates with Microsoft Azure to detect and thwart advanced mobile attacks. Our mobile threat defense (MTD) platform easily integrates directly with Microsoft Azure to give enterprise customers all of the benefits of Zimperium’s award-winning platform in the Azure Cloud. Zimperium on Azure delivers real-time, on-device threat detection and […]
Mobile Security Perceptions vs. Reality
47% of cybersecurity professionals saw a year over year increase in mobile device threats We’ve teamed up with LinkedIn’s 350,000+ Information Security Community to bring you real answers on mobile security. Late last year, the Information Security Community launched its 2nd annual mobile security survey to find out what the […]
Threat Research: FalseGuide
This Threat Research is about the recently (re)discovered “FalseGuide” threat found in Google Play. FalseGuide is a form of malware that has been hidden in more than 40 game guide apps in Google Play since February 2017. According to reports, approximately 600,000 devices may have been infected before the known […]
NDAY-2017-0102: Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability in NVIDIA Video Driver
By: Zuk Avraham Follow Zuk Avraham (@ihackbanme) Nicolas Trippar Follow Nicolas Trippar (@ntrippar) Following our announcement on the N-Days Exploit Acquisition Program for smartphones, we are delighted to share the first couple of submissions. We received many submissions and we’re in the process of sharing them with ZHA followed by a public disclosure. […]
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