Jen Easterly, the new Director of the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, recently sat down for a great, relaxed, and open discussion with Dave DeWalt, the former CEO of FireEye and McAfee. As she astutely mentioned, cybersecurity has become a “kitchen table” discussion across America over the last year, […]
As a second installment related to October’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month, we wanted to highlight the fact that we’re two months into the new school year and focus on the mobile security implications of both the hybrid and in-person models that educational institutions are grappling with protecting. While so many educators, […]
Welcome to Cybersecurity Awareness Month. While this month traditionally is more targeted at consumers, October is a great opportunity for all of us to step back and think about modern workflows and who is and how we are accessing our corporate data. Here at Zimperium, we assume most of our […]
Last year 67% percent of the population in Indonesia used a smartphone. The number of smartphone users in the country is estimated to reach 239 million by 2026. These are staggering stats for the 4th most populous country in the world. It’s also one of the world’s fastest-growing mobile app […]
Over the last few months, the Zimperium zLabs team has been actively monitoring the rise in phishing attacks and some new data started to stand out. While phishing has predominantly been device-agnostic, meaning it did not rely on or change based on the operating system or device type, a trend […]
The auto industry reached an important milestone in 2020: more than half of the cars sold globally included internet connectivity as a standard feature. Modern vehicles have started to resemble mobile supercomputers, with each one containing millions of lines of code and able to process vast amounts of data. They’ve […]
On September 13, The Citizen Lab revealed new research surrounding the Pegasus spyware campaign, presenting further details around their discovery of a zero-click vulnerability targeting Apple devices across the entire endpoint ecosystem. In response to the disclosure, Apple has released security updates for all their devices from mobile to desktop. […]
The United States National Security Agency (NSA) recently released a Cybersecurity Information Sheet, “Securing Wireless Devices in Public Settings,” outlining the risks and recommended security best practices for users accessing public WiFi networks. The document provides reasonable recommendations for users in organizations that have not taken proactive measures to detect […]
The modern public sector organization faces an increasingly sophisticated array of cyber threats, putting critical data and infrastructure constantly at risk. The recently distributed workforce only increases these threat vectors, especially with the implementation and adoption of mobile endpoints. Whether the agency has adopted bring your own device (BYOD), government […]
A new Android Trojan codenamed FlyTrap has hit at least 140 countries since March 2021 and has spread to over 10,000 victims through social media hijacking, third-party app stores, and sideloaded applications. Zimperium’s zLabs mobile threat research teams recently found several previously undetected applications using Zimperium’s z9 malware engine and […]
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