Webinar discusses best practices to help protect mobile devices and apps from BankBot malware. Zimperium is providing customers, media and the general public with a live webinar in which they will learn about best practices to protect mobile customers from BankBot, an Android-targeting malware that uses fake overlay screens to […]
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Once Again, Zimperium Named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape for Mobile Threat Management
Zimperium has been positioned as a leader in the IDC MarketScape* on worldwide Mobile Threat Management Security Software for the second straight year. The IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of IT and […]
Webinar: mHealth’s Responsibility for Patients’ Digital Lives
Webinar discusses best practices to prevent attacks against healthcare mobile apps. Zimperium is providing customers, media and the general public with a live webinar in which they will learn about the ways that hackers are targeting healthcare mobile apps and how healthcare organizations can protect themselves and their patients from […]
Webinar: Protecting Finance Mobile Apps Against Hackers
Webinar reveals how financial services firms can reduce fraud by protecting their mobile apps. Zimperium is providing customers, media and the general public with a live webinar in which they will learn about how financial services firms can reduce the risk of security threats and fraud for customers who use their […]
Your App, Our Security: Zimperium Launches Latest Version of Machine Learning-Based Security for Mobile Apps
Zimperium is announcing the availability of the latest version of zIAP, our industry-leading, machine learning-based mobile security solution developed specifically to embed into existing mobile apps. Organizations who build mobile apps frequently struggle with how to successfully meet the critical need to protect sensitive data, reduce fraud and ensure security […]
Another Mobile App Assisted Breach… This Time It Is British Airways
In a tweet on September 6th, British Airways announced it was “investigating the theft of customer data from our website and our mobile app” (emphasis added). This is just another example of a breach that has been at least partially enabled by mobile apps. According to reports, information was exposed […]
BankBot & Friends: Phishing Mobile Customers Like You Soon
Back in April of 2017, researchers discovered a new form of Android-targeting malware using fake overlay screens to mimic existing banking apps and steal user credentials. Distributed as benign apps in Google Play, BankBot-infected apps were posing as 20 entertainment and mobile banking apps. This first version of BankBot targeted a small […]
Clicking Bot Applications
Cyber crime, like any crime, has its motives; each malware has its own malicious profit. Spyware spies on you. Ransomware demands a ransom to decrypt your private digital data. Phishing Malware phishes for your username, password or account numbers. Installation-fraud achieves fake software installations. Ad fraud fraudulently represents online advertisement […]
Analysis of multiple vulnerabilities in AirDroid
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 […]
Pokémon Go: the Security Cost of Catching ’em All
For the past two weeks, full-grown adults, college students and children have all been roaming around the country in search of Pokémon (gotta catch ’em all, right?). This augmented reality mobile phenomenon has removed people from their home and encouraged them to explore their neighborhoods, but catching them all has […]