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Research & Threat Intel

Android Instant Apps: The security jury is out

By NowSecure Marketing / May 19, 2017 / Comments Off on Android Instant Apps: The security jury is out

The convenience of Instant Apps is appealing, but attackers will view it as a shiny new attack vector, and for me the security jury is still out.

OWASP iOS crackme tutorial: Solved with Frida

By Amy Schurr / April 27, 2017 / Comments Off on OWASP iOS crackme tutorial: Solved with Frida

In this post I explain step-by-step how I solved the OWASP Mobile Security Testing Guide (MSTG) Crackme Level 1 using Frida (and how I then automated it).

iOS Kernel Reversing Step by Step

By NowSecure Marketing / April 14, 2017 / Comments Off on iOS Kernel Reversing Step by Step

This article will show you step by step how to obtain, decrypt and extract a binary version of the iOS kernel

Spearing data in mobile memory: R2Frida memory search

By NowSecure Marketing / March 14, 2017 / Comments Off on Spearing data in mobile memory: R2Frida memory search

NowSecure Researcher Francesco Tamagni recently made significant improvements to R2Frida’s memory-search capabilities, and he answered some questions about those updates and how they make R2Frida (an integration of the Frida and Radare open-source tools/frameworks) even better.

Getting sys_call_table on Android

By NowSecure Marketing / March 13, 2017 / Comments Off on Getting sys_call_table on Android

A detailed HOWTO of getting ‘sys_call_table’ on an Android device.

Cloudflare ‘Cloudbleed’ bug impact on mobile apps: Data sample of potentially affected apps

By Amy Schurr / February 23, 2017 / Comments Off on Cloudflare ‘Cloudbleed’ bug impact on mobile apps: Data sample of potentially affected apps

Learn what the Cloudflare “Cloudbleed” bug is, how it impacts mobile apps, and review a list of 200 of the 3,500 most popular iOS apps that may be affected.

FileSystem Monitor Tool For iOS and Android

By NowSecure Marketing / February 18, 2017 / Comments Off on FileSystem Monitor Tool For iOS and Android

When analyzing the behavior of specific applications or services it is useful to understand how the execution directly or indirectly affects the filesystem.

2016 NowSecure Mobile Security Report Now Available

By NowSecure Marketing / February 11, 2017 / Comments Off on 2016 NowSecure Mobile Security Report Now Available

The NowSecure team plunged into the depths of our mobile security intelligence to gather and correlate data in order to present a snapshot of the current state of mobile security.

How to capture Bluetooth packets on Android 4.4

By NowSecure Marketing / February 7, 2017 / Comments Off on How to capture Bluetooth packets on Android 4.4

Auditing Bluetooth software for security vulnerabilities.

Samsung Account and GALAXY Apps Technical Breakdown – CVE-2015-0863 and CVE-2015-0864

By NowSecure Marketing / January 26, 2017 / Comments Off on Samsung Account and GALAXY Apps Technical Breakdown – CVE-2015-0863 and CVE-2015-0864

The Corrupdate patch corrects the vulnerabilities discovered in Samsung Account and Samsung GALAXY Apps.