Update, Jan. 11, 2025: This story, originally published Jan. 5, now includes a statement from Google regarding the Android FireScam threat. A new information-stealing Android malware threat has been ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about cybersecurity, surveillance and privacy. Advanced Protection Mode, Google says, protects you from “online ...

Google’s new Intrusion Logging feature strengthens Android security by helping detect sophisticated spyware, offering advanced protection for high-risk users on Pixel devices.

Google patched a zero-day vulnerability in Android that attackers were already exploiting to seize elevated access on devices ...

A new Android-focused proof-of-concept exploit would enable threat actors to steal secrets like multifactor authentication credentials from certain Android devices. The attack, named "pixnapping," was ...

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Intrusion Logging is a new part of Android’s Advanced Protection Mode, which aims to help protect human rights activists, journalists, and dissidents from government spyware attack and law enforcement ...

Like any other computer, smartphones are prone to some nasty malware, and the latest exploit discovered in Android is equal parts ingenious and horrifying. The last thing most Android users worry ...

Chris Thomas was a reporter at Android Police from 2022 until 2025. As told to Android Police by a Google spokesperson: "We issued a patch for CVE-2025-48561 in the September Android security bulletin ...

Google has shared the May 2025 security bulletin for Android, confirming that the latest monthly update fixes a vulnerability that was already being actively exploited. Facebook had reported the ...

Imagine most of your phone being secure, free from malicious snooping, save for the pixels on the screen. That's the idea behind 'pixnapping', a new form of attack that U.S. researchers from several ...

A new Android attack technique that manipulates the runtime environment instead of modifying applications has been identified. The method, discovered by CloudSEK researchers, uses the LSPosed ...