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Android Trojans Infect APKPure and Huawei App Stores

Two new active and aggressive Android Trojan variants have been discovered in the wild, impacting users taking advantage of two alternatives, non-Google Play app stores (“third-party” app stores). The discoveries are examples of how malware can spread through other sources outside of Google Play, and highlight the importance of sideloading […]

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What exactly is a mobile ______ attack?

Mobile devices contain or have access to the same information as traditional endpoints. While billions of dollars have been spent protecting and securing traditional endpoints, very little has been invested to protect mobile device endpoints. Attackers work on the same model as any other business: where do they get the […]

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To Be…Protected, or not To Be…Protected. That is the Question.

These last few days could have CIOs and CISOs very nervous. Two news stories about mobile devices pose real threats for enterprises around the world: From Forbes, “millions of shiny new Android smartphones are being purchased with dangerous malware factory-installed, according to Google’s own security research team.” Also from Forbes, […]

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Zimperium Customers Protected From Monokle Malware

According to Threatpost, another new malicious Android app – dubbed “Monokle”- is gaining attention. While Monokle has some interesting capabilities (e.g., making extensive use of Android accessibility services to exfiltrate data and predictive-text dictionaries to understand a target’s interests), it is still basically another malicious app. Monokle is a highly-targeted […]

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WhatsApp Buffer Overflow Vulnerability: Under the Scope

Researcher: Chilik Tamir (@_coreDump)   Recently, Zimperium blogged about the new WhatsApp vulnerability disclosed by Facebook on May 13th. This vulnerability was reportedly exploited in the wild, and it was designated as CVE-2019-3568. A previous post by Zimperium gave some preliminary information about the vulnerability, impacted WhatsApp products, an alleged […]

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