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Category Archives: Android

CISA: Weakness in Chirp Systems may pose problems for “smart lock” homes.

Android Framework vulnerability allows bad actors to escalate privileges on unpatched devices. CISA states Chinese app exploiting to spy on users

Malwarebytes details and experience with an T95 Android TV from Amazon riddled with malware

TechCrunch: Bad actors had access to passwords for control of credit card payment terminals, WiFi names/passwords, etc

Hackers stole passwords for accessing 140,000 payment terminals

Android apps with malware was installed from Google Play 3,000,000 times

SentinelOne details a recent report of attacks on Apple Mac users visiting Hong Kong website supporting “pro-democracy” activism, and the backdoor those attacks create

Google patches active Zero-Day vulnerabilities under attack for Android devices and fixes others

Have an Android device (who doesn’t)? New malware can root the device and tries to evade detection (and does do for now). Currently in 19 apps in Google Play

Let’s Encrypt root certificate (IdentTrust DST Root CA X3) expired September 30th, 2021.

Let’s Encrypt’s root certificate has expired, and it might break your devices

Kaspersky finds a fake version of WhatsApp claiming to have “extra features”; extra including a trojan

OSG: Bits, Bytes and Packets

Category Archives: Android

CISA: Weakness in Chirp Systems may pose problems for “smart lock” homes.

Android Framework vulnerability allows bad actors to escalate privileges on unpatched devices. CISA states Chinese app exploiting to spy on users

Malwarebytes details and experience with an T95 Android TV from Amazon riddled with malware

TechCrunch: Bad actors had access to passwords for control of credit card payment terminals, WiFi names/passwords, etc

Android apps with malware was installed from Google Play 3,000,000 times

SentinelOne details a recent report of attacks on Apple Mac users visiting Hong Kong website supporting “pro-democracy” activism, and the backdoor those attacks create

Google patches active Zero-Day vulnerabilities under attack for Android devices and fixes others

Have an Android device (who doesn’t)? New malware can root the device and tries to evade detection (and does do for now). Currently in 19 apps in Google Play

Let’s Encrypt root certificate (IdentTrust DST Root CA X3) expired September 30th, 2021.

Kaspersky finds a fake version of WhatsApp claiming to have “extra features”; extra including a trojan

Category Archives: Android