We are sending a team to VMworld 2017 in Las Vegas for the first time. For years we have exhibited at AirWatch Connect and met many of our customers there for the first time and are excited to continue our partnership with VMware and AirWatch under the new integrated conference. We have been […]
Zimperium discovered and reported a fake version of the popular Snapchat app in the official Google Play Store; At the time of our discovery, it was the second result when searching for “Snapchat”. The fake version of Snapchat app is using “Snap Inc .” as Company Name, with a ” […]
In 1975, a book was published that changed the way we approach complex problems. Inspired on how nature works “Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems” set the bases of genetic algorithms. The release date of this blogpost is strongly linked to that book, it is a symbolic tribute to its […]
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 […]
As part of zLab’s platform research team, I’ve tried to investigate an area of the kernel that wasn’t thoroughly researched before. After digging into some of Apple’s closed-source kernel modules, one code chunk led to another and I’ve noticed a little-known module, which I’ve never seen before, called AppleAVE. AppleAVE was written neglecting basic security […]
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, 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 […]
This Threat Research is about two variations of the zTorg mobile trojan recently discovered in Google Play by Kaspersky researcher, Roman Unucheck. In his blog post, Unucheck described the two variations as “Magic browser” and “Noise Detector”. According to Unucheck, “Magic browser” was uploaded to Google Play on May 15, 2017 and was […]
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 […]
We’re honored to have won the Gold Award for Best Mobile and Wireless Solution in the Network Products Guide 2017 IT World Awards. NPG’s IT World Awards recognize the industry’s best IT solutions and we’re humbled to be selected among other leaders like Dell and Cisco. An annual achievements and […]