Security News

PIN-changing, screen-locking Android ransomware (Help Net Security)
2015-09-10 13:28

A sophisticated new piece of ransomware targeting Android users and locking them out of their devices by changing the PIN has been discovered by ESET researchers. Masquerading as an app for viewing...

Attack code for critical Android Stagefright flaw published (Help Net Security)
2015-09-10 09:34

After having graciously waited for quite a while to publish the exploit for the Android Stagefright vulnerability (CVE-2015-1538) so that Google, mobile carriers and device manufacturers might push ou...

Android Stagefright Exploit Code Released to Public (Threatpost)
2015-09-09 16:06

Exploit code for the Android Stagefright vulnerability was made public, and researcher Joshua Drake hopes organizations will test Android systems and devices against the code.