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Six new HiddenAd Trojans found on Google Play with 280,000+ downloads. If you have them installed, remove them. https://t.co/fB1CCttfIZ
Brazilian Android RAT distributed by over 20 apps via Google Play mostly as WhatsApp update exploiting WhatsApp's CVE-2019-3568.
One of the apps had 10,000+ installs.
https://securelist.com/spying-android-rat-from-brazil-brata/92775/
ARES ADB IOT Botnet Targeting Android Devices especially STBs/ TVs
https://www.wootcloud.com/blogs/ars_botnet.html
Analysis and Reproduction of iOS/OSX Vulnerability: CVE-2019-7286

▪️CVE-2019-7286 was exploited in the wild
▪️The vulnerability seems to be of critical severity
▪️Vulnerability reproduced (includes POC code)
▪️The vulnerability could be used to escalate privileges to root as part of a chain for jailbreak on iOS 12.1.3.
https://blog.zecops.com/vulnerabilities/analysis-and-reproduction-of-cve-2019-7286/
Global Rankings in Updating Smartphone Software and Security (besides Pixel)

1) Nokia
2) Samsung
3) Xiaomi
4) Huawei
5) Lenovo
https://www.counterpointresearch.com/nokia-leads-global-rankings-updating-smartphone-software-security/
Roaming Mantis(MoqHao/XLoader): spreads via SMShing

Distribution:
Infected Android device sends a SMS with a bit.ly link that links to a Tumblr blog that redirects to a malicous landing page.
https://hitcon.org/2019/CMT/slide-files/d2_s1_r1.pdf
Review of harmful apps found on Google Play in August 2019

Summary: 204 apps with over 438,400,00 installs.
https://lukasstefanko.com/2019/09/android-security-monthly-recap-8.html
Price For Mobile Exploits

For the first time Zerodium pays more for Android then iOS.
https://zerodium.com/program.html#changelog