The popular and inexpensive texting international app SMS touch has been found to send critical data in cleartext making the users susceptible to hackers.
The update also described patches for High and Moderate level vulnerabilities which could allow similar attacks, all of which were contained in the devices' Media Framework, Broadcom, Kernal. MediaTek, and Qualcomm components.
Google has released a security update for its Chrome operating system in order to address the critical BroadPwn security bug that can be exploited to remotely control devices.
Cybercriminals have updated the functionality of the popular Svpeng mobile banking trojan giving it keylogger capabilities and the ability to access the text input from almost all of a devices apps.
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