Mobile security has certainly seen its fair share of headlines in 2019 prompting individuals and enterprises to realize mobile devices are another endpoint – like laptops and computers – in need of protecting. I thought it would be fun to look back at some of those stories that helped propel […]
Mobile devices continue to be the target of attack at increasing rates. There is a relatively simple explanation for this – in a typical organization today, 60% of the endpoints containing or accessing enterprise data are mobile; the majority of which do not have any security protection today. It […]
I had to do it. Afterall, I talk about it with customers and prospects daily. Had to see for myself. About a week ago, I was on a train in Australia. Heading from Melbourne to my home in Essendon at about 4:50pm. There were about 60 passengers riding along and […]
Follow @tamir_zb As part of our platform research in Zimperium zLabs, we recently disclosed a buffer overflow vulnerability affecting multiple Android DRM services to Google. Google classified it as high-severity, designated it as CVE-2017-13253 and have patched it in the March security update. In this blog post, we’ll cover the […]
Following my previous blog post titled “New Crucial Vulnerabilities in Apple’s bluetoothd daemon”, I am releasing the vulnerability PoC. The PoC is released for educational purposes and evaluation by IT Administrators and Pentesters alike, and should not be used in any unintended way. Furthermore, this PoC and any other related […]
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 […]
By:Zuk Avraham Follow Zuk Avraham (@ihackbanme)Joshua Drake Follow Joshua Drake (@jduck) Last year, we disclosed a series of critical vulnerabilities within Android’s multimedia processing code — libstagefright. We promised to release the exploit for testing purposes and quickly published our exploit for CVE-2015-1538 targeting the Galaxy Nexus running Android 4.0.4. […]
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 […]
By:Joshua Drake Follow Joshua Drake (@jduck)Nikias Bassen Follow Nikias Bassen (@pimskeks) Apple released iOS 9.2.1 update, the first iOS security update in 2016. As part of this update, Apple fixed code execution vulnerability in syslogd that was reported by Zimperium zLabs researchers Nikias Bassen and Joshua J. Drake. In this […]
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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