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 very good for current and … Read More
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 attackers, armed with only a … Read More
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 2 billion. Scaling our statistics … Read More
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 to take over a person’s … Read More
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 attacks against current devices, led … Read More
