Florence Broderick "Not today downloaders": New downloaders techniques in Google Play Downloaders are not new in Android, but lately, they are getting more and more important for attackers as a method to avoid Google Play barriers and malware detection. In...
Florence Broderick JSDialers: apps calling premium rate numbers (with new techniques) in Google Play During last year, a lot of “made in Spain” malware was found in Google Play. It was basically malware that tried to silently subscribe the victim to premium SMS numbers. From a while...
Florence Broderick Detected some "clickers" in Google Play simulating apps and games During the last days, some apps have appeared in Google Play that work like “clickers”, between them an app simulating Talking Tom (that was online for just a few...
Florence Broderick 5.500 apps potentially vulnerable to Man in the Middle attacks in Google Play It has been discovered than AppsGeyser, an app creator “with just a few clicks”, deactivates the SSL certificate validation in its apps. An attacker on the same network as...
Florence Broderick Shuabang botnet: BlackHat App Store Optimization (BlackASO) in Google Play ElevenPaths has detected malicious apps in Google Play (already removed by Google), aimed at performing Shuabang techniques, or BlackASO (Black Hat App Store Optimization). These malicious apps link fake...
ElevenPaths Wannacry chronicles: Messi, korean, bitcoins and ransomware last hours It is hard to say something new about Wannacry, (the ransomware itself, not the attack). But it is worth investigating how the attacker worked during last hours before the...
Florence Broderick Another month, another new rooting malware family for Android Several months ago there was a media explosion about Android-rooting malware on Google Play. Those families were discovered by Cheetah Mobile Security Research Lab, Check Point, Lookout, FireEye,...
Florence Broderick Quick and dirty script in Powershell to check certificate fingerprints Malware is using signed binaries to attack Windows systems. Malware needs it to get into the roots of the operative system. So attackers steal or create their own certificates....
Florence Broderick Evil FOCA is now Open Source We are really happy to announce that Evil FOCA is now Open Source. We have received lots of comments and feedback about how you are using Evil FOCA, or how...
Florence Broderick How to bypass antiXSS filter in Chrome and Safari (discovered by ElevenPaths) Modern browsers usually have an antiXSS filter, that protects users from some of the consequences of this kind of attacks. Normally, they block cross site scripting execution, so the...