Tag: Mobile

An attacker can downgrade components of the Android TrustZone technology to older versions that feature known vulnerabilities and use older exploits against smartphones running an up-to-date operating system. According to a team of four computer scientists from the Florida State University and Baidu X-Lab, the problem lies in the design of the ARM TrustZone technology, […]

Android bootloader components from five major chipset vendors are affected by vulnerabilities that break the CoT (Chain of Trust) during the boot-up sequence, opening devices to attacks. The vulnerabilities came to light during research carried out by a team of nine computer scientists from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Researchers developed BootStomp to analyze […]

After years of silence, WAP-billing trojans are making a comeback, with four new strains becoming active in the second quarter of 2017, targeting Russia and India primarily. The four wave of trojans — Ubsod, Xafekopy, Autosus, and Podec — were discovered by Kaspersky Lab mobile security expert Roman Unuchek while gathering information for the company’s […]