Posts about Threat Research (19)

Understanding - “Pegasus” a Targeted Attack Remotely Infecting iOS Devices

Threat Research
2 minutes
Aug 28, 2016
Pegasus is a sophisticated trojan targeting the iOS platform. It provides an attacker abilities to remotely monitor and capture communication from a
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What is Quadrooter?

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3 minutes
Aug 10, 2016
‘Quadrooter’ is a group of four vulnerabilities affecting  specific Android devices leveraging the Qualcomm chipset and associated driver code. These four
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Will the Real Hummer Trojan Please Stand Up?

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2 minutes
Aug 08, 2016
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
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Pokémon Go: the Security Cost of Catching ’em All

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3 minutes
Aug 02, 2016
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
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Stagefright: One Year Later

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4 minutes
Jul 27, 2016
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
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Zimperium Applauds Google’s Rapid Response to Unpatched Kernel Exploit

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3 minutes
Mar 25, 2016
On March 15th, Zimperium's zIPS Mobile Threat Protection solution identified a zero-day mobile attack and its zLabs research team immediately reported the
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Taking a Deeper Dive into Leech: One of the Three Families of Malware Dubbed as Triada

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3 minutes
Mar 24, 2016
Triada is now the “umbrella” name for the three mobile Trojan families – Ztorg, Gorpo and Leech – that, as we mentioned before, primarily exploit users of
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Reflecting on Stagefright Patches

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5 minutes
Mar 22, 2016
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
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