Zimperium discovered and reported a fake version of the popular Snapchat app in the official Google Play Store; At the time of our discovery, it was the second result when searching for “Snapchat”. The fake version of Snapchat app is using “Snap Inc .” as Company Name, with a ” […]
As part of zLab’s platform research team, I’ve tried to investigate an area of the kernel that wasn’t thoroughly researched before. After digging into some of Apple’s closed-source kernel modules, one code chunk led to another and I’ve noticed a little-known module, which I’ve never seen before, called AppleAVE. AppleAVE was written neglecting basic security […]
This Threat Research is about two variations of the zTorg mobile trojan recently discovered in Google Play by Kaspersky researcher, Roman Unucheck. In his blog post, Unucheck described the two variations as “Magic browser” and “Noise Detector”. According to Unucheck, “Magic browser” was uploaded to Google Play on May 15, 2017 and was […]
14% of Devices Contain Malware 4% detected a Man-in-the-Middle Attack 1 of 3 Devices Not Running Latest Version Mobile devices are now standard computing platforms in businesses of all sizes. U.S. consumers now spend over 5 hours per day on mobile devices [1]. The average time spent per day on […]
47% of cybersecurity professionals saw a year over year increase in mobile device threats We’ve teamed up with LinkedIn’s 350,000+ Information Security Community to bring you real answers on mobile security. Late last year, the Information Security Community launched its 2nd annual mobile security survey to find out what the […]
This Threat Research is about the recently (re)discovered “FalseGuide” threat found in Google Play. FalseGuide is a form of malware that has been hidden in more than 40 game guide apps in Google Play since February 2017. According to reports, approximately 600,000 devices may have been infected before the known […]
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 […]