3 good reasons to use a passcode on your smartphone
Most of us always have a mobile device in our pockets or bags. We use it for multiple purposes, ranging from social media to online payment. This means our phone is continuously accumulating personal sensitive data that could be quite valuable for fraudsters.
How to avoid an SMS Grabbing Attack?
An SMS grabbing attack is a widespread attack on Android mobile devices whose goal is to intercept the user's SMS used as a second authentication factor or "account recovery" code.
White Paper – Intel – Android Ubiquitous leakage through VFS (CVE-2017-13165)
As widely known, the Android operating system is based on Linux. Even if it has been subjected to a heavy customisation to improve it in terms of performance and security on mobile/embedded devices, it still [...]
White Paper – The analysis conducted on the malware PowerFakeToken
The analysed malware, internally baptised as PowerFakeToken, has been identified to belong to the Android/FakeToken.A family. In a nutshell, the mentioned malware family pretends to be a mobile token generator, typically used for transaction validation [...]
