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Max-severity vulnerability in React, Node.js patched, update ASAP (CVE-2025-55182)
A critical vulnerability (CVE-2025-55182) in React Server Components (RSC) may allow unauthenticated attackers to achieve remote code exection on the application server, the …
Your budget Android phone might be spying on you
Researchers have found that many low-cost Android devices come with pre-installed apps that have high-level access to the system. Unlike apps from the Google Play Store, many …
Android VPN apps used by millions are covertly connected AND insecure
Three families of Android VPN apps, with a combined 700 million-plus Google Play downloads, are secretly linked, according to a group of researchers from Arizona State …
Mobile security is a frontline risk. Are you ready?
The mobile threat landscape has shifted. According to Zimperium’s 2025 Global Mobile Threat Report, attackers are now prioritizing mobile devices over desktops. For …
BLint: Open-source tool to check the security properties of your executables
BLint is a Binary Linter designed to evaluate your executables’ security properties and capabilities, utilizing LIEF for its operations. From version 2, BLint can also …
Bug hunters can get up to $450,000 for an RCE in Google’s Android apps
Google has drastically increased the rewards bug hunters can get for reporting vulnerabilities in Android apps it develops and maintains. “We increased reward amounts by …
Apps secretly turning devices into proxy network nodes removed from Google Play
Your smartphone might be part of a proxy network, and you might not even know it: all it takes is for you to download apps whose developers have included the functionality and …
MobSF: Open-source security research platform for mobile apps
The Mobile Security Framework (MobSF) is an open-source research platform for mobile application security, encompassing Android, iOS, and Windows Mobile. MobSF can be used for …
LassPass is not LastPass: Fraudulent app on Apple App Store
A fraudulent app named “LassPass Password Manager” that mimics the legitimate LastPass mobile app can currently be found on Apple’s App Store, the password manager maker …
New method to safeguard against mobile account takeovers
Computer science researchers have developed a new way to identify security weaknesses that leave people vulnerable to account takeover attacks, where an attacker gains …
Google Play will mark independently validated VPN apps
Android VPN apps that have gone through an independent security validation will now be able to claim that distinction on Google Play with a prominent badge in their Data …
Backdoored Android phones, TVs used for ad fraud – and worse!
A key monetization mechanism of a sophisticated series of cybercriminal operations involving backdoored off-brand mobile and CTV Android devices has been disrupted, Human …
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