Smartphones With Qualcomm Chip Secretly Share Private Information With US Chip-Maker
"Smart phones with Qualcomm chip secretly send personal data to Qualcomm. This data is sent without user consent, unencrypted, and even when using a Google-free Android distribution."
https://www.nitrokey.com/news/2023/smartphones-popular-qualcomm-chip-secretly-share-private-information-us-chip-maker

Androset: Automated noscript to convert and push Burp Suite certificate in Android, and modify Android's IP table to redirect all traffic to Burp Suite
https://github.com/Anof-cyber/Androset

Android TV Boxes: AllWinner H616/H618 & RockChip 3328 Android Malware Analysis & Cleanup
https://github.com/DesktopECHO/T95-H616-Malware

Android greybox fuzzing with AFL++ Frida mode
https://blog.quarkslab.com/android-greybox-fuzzing-with-afl-frida-mode.html

Vulnerabilities identified in Amazon Fire TV Stick
1) Local network PIN brute forcing (CVE-2023-1385)
2) Arbitrary Javanoscript code to execution (CVE-2023-1384)
3) Register services that are only locally accessible (CVE-2023-1383)
https://www.bitdefender.com/files/News/CaseStudies/study/430/Bitdefender-PR-Whitepaper-AMZFr-creat6696-en-EN.pdf

Flutter Hackers: Understand and reverse engineere Flutter APK Release Mode with Frida
Part 1: https://infosecwriteups.com/flutter-hackers-uncovering-the-devs-myopia-part-1-6c316be56b13
Part 2: https://infosecwriteups.com/flutter-hackers-uncovering-the-devs-myopia-part-2-598a44942b5e

Arbitrary code execution discoverd in Android imo-International Calls & Chat with 1B installs up to version 2022.11.1051 (CVE-2022-47757)
A path traversal vulnerability delivered using a deeplink can force the IMO app to write files into its data directory. This allows an attacker to write a library file that the app uses to dynamically load modules
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-47757

FluHorse – Newly Discovered Android Malware Disguised as Popular Android Apps Targeting East Asia to steal victim credentials and 2FA codes
https://research.checkpoint.com/2023/eastern-asian-android-assault-fluhorse/

Mobile Threats Report for Q1/2023 by Avast
https://decoded.avast.io/threatresearch/avast-q1-2023-threat-report/#mobile

Fleckpe - A new family of Trojan subscribers discovered on Google Play #Jocker #Harly
https://securelist.com/fleckpe-a-new-family-of-trojan-subscribers-on-google-play/109643/

Bypass Tiktok SSL pinning on Android devices
https://github.com/Eltion/Tiktok-SSL-Pinning-Bypass

Meta (Facebook) Adversarial Threat Report for Q1 2023 (Android threats included)
https://about.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Meta-Quarterly-Adversarial-Threat-Report-Q1-2023.pdf

Analysis of Android SpyNote spyware targeting Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) users
https://labs.k7computing.com/index.php/spynote-targets-irctc-users/

GSMA Mobile Telecommunications Security Landscape in 2022
(ransomware, malware, smsishing, spyware, SIM swap, eSIM fraud, supply chain attacks, critical national infrastructure attacks, human threat...)
https://www.gsma.com/security/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/GSMA-Mobile-Telecommunications-Security-Landscape-2023_v1_for-website.pdf

Three ways how to dynamically load code into an Android application at runtime
https://erev0s.com/blog/3-ways-for-dynamic-code-loading-in-android/

DroidFrida: Android app for executing frida noscripts directly on your android device
https://github.com/ac3ss0r/DroidFrida/

JAMBOREE: Portable all in one tool to install essential Android tools (Java, Android tools, Magisk, BurpSuit, Objection, Root Emulator, Frida etc.)
https://github.com/freeload101/Java-Android-Magisk-Burp-Objection-Root-Emulator-Easy

I/O 2023: What's new in Android security and privacy
-Safe Browsing: faster more intelligent protection
-Passkeys helps move users beyond passwords
-new API that lets developers limit accessibility services from interacting with their apps
-Data safety section in Google Play last year to help you see how developers collect, share, and protect user data
-Better control and protection over your photos and videos
http://security.googleblog.com/2023/05/io-2023-android-security-and-privacy.html.html

Advanced Frida Usage Part 1 – iOS Encryption Libraries
https://8ksec.io/advanced-frida-usage-part-1-ios-encryption-libraries-8ksec-blogs/

Converso app: How I accidentally breached a nonexistent database and found every private key in a 'state-of-the-art' encrypted messenger called Converso
https://crnkovic.dev/testing-converso/

Multiple Vulnerabilities in Kiddoware Kids Place Parental Control Android App (CVE-2023-28153, CVE-2023-29078, CVE-2023-29079)
1) Login and registration returns password as MD5 hash
2) Stored XSS via device name in parent Dashboard
3) Possible CSRF attacks in parent Dashboard
4) Arbitrary File Upload to AWS S3 bucket
5) Disable Child App Restriction without Parent's notice
https://sec-consult.com/vulnerability-lab/advisory/multiple-vulnerabilities-in-kiddoware-kids-place-parental-control-android-app/