This is not the first time the HLUX botnet has been mentioned in this blog, but there are still some unanswered questions that we’ve been receiving from the media: What is the botnet’s sphere of activity? What sort of commands does it receive from malicious users? How does the bot spread? How many infected computers […]
Last week researchers found vulnerabilities in the Google Wallet payment system. The first vulnerability was found by Zvelo, which required root access. Rooting devices has become just short of trivial at this point with the avaibility of “one-click root” applications for most platforms. The vulnerability was leveraged to display the current PIN number. The very […]
We suggested earlier that instead of going after the Secure Element chip and the information it keeps safe, attackers would go after the weaker point of the Google Wallet app. Security researcher Joshua Rubin has now created a proof-of-concept app, Google Wallet Cracker, that can recover the Google Wallet PIN on a rooted phone.Once attackers […]
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