Using only cloud sourcing as the basis for mobile threat defense is the wrong side of an attack. We respect the boldness of a competitor’s CEO taking on the leader in his market. In a very literal sense, he laid his and his company’s cards on the table. This is […]
It’s been exactly one year since Joshua J. Drake, our zLabs VP of Platform Research and Exploitation, disclosed Stagefright — one of the worst Android vulnerabilities to date. Stagefright impacted nearly 1 billion Android devices total, and up to 850 million devices remain vulnerable as of March 2016. Stagefright gives […]
42.84% of Android devices tested are vulnerable to CVE-2015-3864. Although Google issued an update to the Hangout app that disabled automatic processing of media files, we know that CVE-2015-3864 can be exploited remotely and reliably via the browser. The number of Android devices is estimated to be between 1.4 and […]
Just how safe is your phone from hackers? Our own zLabs VP of Research Joshua Drake and founder and chairman Zuk Avraham sat down with Crime Watch Daily’s Ana Garcia to show viewers just how dangerous hackers abusing the Stagefright vulnerabilities can be. One of the most common ways for hackers […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Stagefright vulnerability has been one of the hottest topics of discussion in the security industry since it was announced. In order to provide a detailed insight into the vulnerability and ease of exploitation, zLabs VP of Platform Research and Exploitation, Joshua Drake (@jduck) prepared the video below that demonstrates the […]
By:Zuk Avraham Follow Zuk Avraham (@ihackbanme)Joshua Drake Follow Joshua Drake (@jduck)Yaniv Karta Follow Yaniv Karta (@shokoluv) Reflecting on our collective experiences in the Android ecosystem, especially recent events around Stagefright, we were reminded of several deficiencies in the way that Android security update ecosystem works. To help address these issues, […]
Earlier this week, Zimperium (@ZIMPERIUM), the leader in mobile threat protection, unveiled a major vulnerability in Android – Stagefright. Joshua Drake (@jduck), VP of Platform Research and Exploitation and a senior member of Zimperium zLabs, proactively studied the code. According to a few firms, other people have identified vulnerabilities in […]
By:Zuk Avraham Follow Zuk Avraham (@ihackbanme)Joshua Drake Follow Joshua Drake (@jduck)Nikias Bassen Follow Nikias Bassen (@pimskeks) UPDATE: Zimperium’s Mobile Threat Protection customers are safe from this threat, even without updating the device to the latest Android version. Companies that have reasons to believe that they are under active Stagefright attacks, should contact […]