As smartphone manufacturers are improving the ear speakers in their devices, it can become easier for malicious actors to leverage a particular side-channel for eavesdropping on a targeted user’s conversations, according to a team of researchers from several universities in the United States.
The Godfather Android banking trojan has been observed targeting over 400 banking and crypto applications in 16 countries, threat intelligence firm Group-IB warns.
The National Security Agency (NSA), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) have released guidance on the security risks associated with 5G network slicing and mitigation strategies.
Apple on Tuesday published 10 new advisories describing vulnerabilities affecting its products, including a zero-day that has been exploited against iPhone users.
Mordechai Guri, a cybersecurity researcher from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel who specializes in air gap jumping, has released a paper detailing yet another method that can be used to stealthily exfiltrate data from systems isolated from the internet and local networks.
TikTok was hit Wednesday with a pair of lawsuits from the US state of Indiana, which accused it of making false claims about the Chinese-owned app’s safety for children.
Google this week announced the December 2022 Android updates with patches for over 75 vulnerabilities, including multiple critical remote code execution (RCE) flaws.
The most severe of the RCE bugs is CVE-2022-20411, an issue in Android’s System component that could be exploited over Bluetooth.
A threat actor tracked as ‘Scattered Spider’ is targeting telecommunications and business process outsourcing (BPO) companies in an effort to gain access to mobile carrier networks and perform SIM swapping, cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike warns.
Google is seeing a significant decrease in memory safety issues in Android due to the progressive migration to memory-safe programming languages, such as Rust.
Mobile security firm Zimperium is warning of an Android trojan that may have stolen Facebook credentials from a large number of users.
