This Threat Research is about the recently discovered “Pre-installed Android Malware” threat. At least 36 high-end smartphone models belonging to popular manufacturing companies such as Samsung, LG, and Lenovo were found pre-loaded with 21 malware programs. The programs were part of two malware families: Loki and SLocker. The malicious apps […]
Zuk Avraham, Founder Follow Zuk Avraham (@ihackbanme) Last week, Ian Beer, from the Google Project Zero research team, released his local elevation of privileges exploit targeting iOS 10.1.1 [1]. We immediately understood that we had another opportunity to assess a new zero day exploit against our Machine-Learning attack and exploit […]
Reported by: Simone Margaritelli Security Researcher at Zimperium zLabs Edit: 11:02AM PDT: added exploit POC code below the disclosure timeline. Edit2: 06:01PM PDT: edited timeline to reflect 4.0.0 and 4.0.1 release dates and confirming that both versions are still vulnerable. Edit3: Dec 12th, 2016, 10:41AM PDT: edited timeline to reflect […]
Zimperium users are safe from Gooligan. A new threat, called Gooligan, which is a family of Android-based malware, has compromised more than 1M Google accounts — and many of those are enterprise users. “Not surprisingly, a malware, spread in unofficial markets, can create real damage,” said Zimperium founder and CTO, Zuk […]
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. […]
Pegasus is a sophisticated trojan targeting the iOS platform. It provides an attacker abilities to remotely monitor and capture communication from a device (including calls, texts, Whatsapp, Viber, etc). A successful attack transforms a device running iOS into a powerful surveillance tool. This is a persistent attack and enables an […]
Background By:Simone Margaritelli c Follow Simone Margaritelli (@evilsocket) Zimperium zLabs Follow Zimperium zLabs (@zLabsProeject) During the last weeks we’ve been investigating multiple aspects of GSM security such as protocol vulnerabilities as well as source auditing the world’s most common open source software products that run GSM networks. In this post we’ll […]
‘Quadrooter’ is a group of four vulnerabilities affecting specific Android devices leveraging the Qualcomm chipset and associated driver code. These four vulnerabilities are a small part of the 36 vulnerabilities reported from the same class of bug (privilege escalation) for the same vendor (Qualcomm) that were fixed as part of […]
Several researchers have reported on the discovery of Hummer Trojan, as one calls it, or HummingBad as another calls it. Another said it was also known as Shedun. Zimperium’s customers are safe from this recently discussed threat even before these threats were published. The attack was detected through our z9 […]
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 […]