Security researchers at Trend Micro's Trend Labs have uncovered a trick in a sample of a fake news application for Android created by the network exploitation tool provider Hacking Team that may have ...

Six months ago, Google offered to pay US$200,000 to any researcher who could remotely hack into an Android device by knowing only the victim’s phone number and email address. No one stepped up to the ...

Poor implementation of encryption in a popular Android remote management application exposes millions of users to data theft and remote code execution attacks. According to researchers from mobile ...

As regular readers may already remember, my second-generation (2013 “FHD”) Nexus 7 tablet has been a repeated topic in past blog posts. And in most-to-all of them, I grumble about the fact that it's ...

Drive-by exploits install ransomware on outdated Android devices using a stolen Hacking Team exploit and the first weaponized Towelroot attack. A menacing wave of ransomware that locks up Android ...

An exploit kit which is delivering the Towelroot exploit kit to Android users is leveraging leaked exploits from Hacking Team's servers to infect victims' mobile devices. Researchers from Blue Coat ...