Mobile Insecurity Series

Mobile (in)Security Series: Application "MyFitnessPal" Data Leaking

During a security assessment with the Emergency VPN our researchers found two issues: i) first, we found that the application MyFitnessPal for iOS was leaking the user email address in plain text over the network, and ii) second, advertisings are loaded through insecure connections leaking more data collected from the mobile device.

PhantomLance Android malware highlights the complexity of the mobile threat

The discovery of the PantomLance malware linked to the OceanLotus APT group ─ which has previously targeted civil society in Vietnam ─ provides some important lessons on mobile threats against high-value targets.