Application Security This Week for March 24

Bruce has some thoughts on a well-circulated article suggesting that application security isn't that important after all.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/03/an_argument_tha.html

Solid analysis of SimBad, a rogue malware campaign that infiltrated the Google Play store.

https://research.checkpoint.com/simbad-a-rogue-adware-campaign-on-google-play/

Terrifying tool that creates a spoofed cert for any website and signs an executable for AV Evasion.

https://github.com/paranoidninja/CarbonCopy

More awesome research from Rapid7, on deserialization bugs.  A topic, as regular readers know, that is near and dear to my heart.

https://www.rapid7.com/research/report/exploiting-jsos/

And that's the news!