Mobile

GPS spoofing: How to become a satellite

Date: 25/01/2025

Author: qeewqq

Each of us uses satellite navigation to get anywhere outside our backyard. But what if GPS, as of a sudden, stops working and cannot be used to determine your location anymore? This article presents an efficient technique enabling you to fool GPS.

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Cyberphone. Transforming an Android smartphone into a hacker tool

Date: 21/12/2024

Author: s0i37

From a hacker’s perspective, a mobile phone is the most handy tool for computer attacks, especially for attacks that require semiphysical access and are delivered over a radio channel. In this article, I will explain how to transform an ordinary Android smartphone into a powerful hacker weapon.

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Playful Xamarin. Researching and hacking a C# mobile app

Date: 03/06/2022

Author: Mazay

Java or Kotlin are not the only languages you can use to create apps for Android. C# programmers can develop mobile apps using the Xamarin open-source platform. Today, I will explain how to research such apps and find ways to hack them.

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Blindfold game. Manage your Android smartphone via ABD

Date: 02/06/2022

Author: rexby

One day I encountered a technical issue: I had to put a phone connected to a single-board Raspberry Pi computer into the USB-tethering mode on boot. To do this, I used Android Debug Bridge (ADB), a handy debugging interface for Android devices. There are several ways to automate the work of apps on an Android smartphone using ADB, and this paper examines one of them.

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Controlling Android. Dangerous APIs enable hackers to intercept data and reset smartphone settings

Date: 27/11/2021

Author: Eugene Zobnin

In addition to traditional permissions, Android has three metapermissions that open access to very dangerous APIs enabling the attacker to seize control over the device. In this article, I will explain how to use them so that you can programmatically press smartphone buttons, intercept notifications, extract text from input fields of other apps, and reset device settings.

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Fake address. How to change geolocation on Android devices and fool apps

Date: 19/09/2021

Author: Mazay

Android has a wonderful feature: you can make any program the provider of geocoordinates, so that the entire system will use the latitude and longitude provided by it. In this article, I will show how to exploit this feature and how to write a program spoofing GPS coordinates.

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Duck tales. How to create a wireless analogue of Rubber Ducky

Date: 29/05/2021

Author: Candidum

Hackers and pentesters consider BadUSB an efficient attack vector; it emulates the keyboard and performs operations on the attacked computer under the disguise of user input. Such attacks are very difficult-to-detect because neither the OS nor antiviruses suspect the keyboard of any wrongdoing. Today, I will show how to create your own BadUSB tool – a wireless device looking like a memory stick.

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