A set of five exploitable vulnerabilities in Arm's Mali GPU driver remain unfixed months after the chip maker patched them, leaving potentially millions of Android devices exposed to attacks. [...]
A new collection of malicious Android apps posing as harmless file managers had infiltrated the official Google Play app store, infecting users with the Sharkbot banking trojan. [...]
Researchers discovered 1,550 mobile apps leaking Algolia API keys, risking the exposure of sensitive internal services and stored user information. [...]
DuckDuckGo for Android's 'App Tracking Protection' feature has reached open beta, allowing all Android users to block third-party trackers across all their installed apps. [...]
A malicious for-profit group named 'Fangxiao' has created a massive network of over 42,000 web domains that impersonate well-known brands to redirect users to sites promoting adware apps, dating sites, or 'free' giveaways. [...]
Cybersecurity researcher David Schütz accidentally found a way to bypass the lock screen on his fully patched Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 5 smartphones, enabling anyone with physical access to the device to unlock it. [...]
A previously undocumented Android spyware tool named 'BadBazaar' has been discovered targeting ethnic and religious minorities in China, most notably the Uyghurs in Xinjiang. [...]
Roughly half of all Android-based mobile phones used by state and local government employees are running outdated versions of the operating system, exposing them to hundreds of vulnerabilities threat actors can leverage to perform cyberattacks. [...]
A set of four malicious applications currently available in Google Play, the official store for the Android system, are directing users sites that steal sensitive information or generate 'pay-per-click' revenue for the operators. [...]
A new Android spyware named 'RatMilad' was discovered targeting mobile devices in the Middle East, used to spy on victims and steal data. [...]
A new Iranian state-sponsored hacking group known as APT42 has been discovered using a custom Android malware to spy on targets of interest. [...]
Damart, a French clothing company with over 130 stores across the world, is being extorted for $2 million after a cyberattack from the Hive ransomware gang. [...]
Security researchers are raising the alarm about mobile app developers relying on insecure practices that expose Amazon Web Services (AWS) credentials, making the supply chain vulnerable. [...]
A new batch of thirty-five Android malware apps that display unwanted advertisements was found on the Google Play Store, with the apps installed over 2 million times on victims' mobile devices. [...]
Android malware developers are already adjusting their tactics to bypass a new 'Restricted settings' security feature introduced by Google in the newly released Android 13. [...]
The SOVA Android banking trojan continues to evolve with new features, code improvements, and the addition of a new ransomware feature that encrypts files on mobile devices. [...]
Security analysts have found weaknesses in the implementation of the trusted execution environment (TEE) in MediaTek-powered Xiaomi smartphones, which could enable third-party unprivileged apps to disable the payment system or forge payments. [...]
Researchers have discovered more details on the newly discovered Android spyware 'Dracarys,' used by the Bitter APT group in cyberespionage operations targeting users from New Zealand, India, Pakistan, and the United Kingdom. [...]
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a set of 3,207 mobile apps that are exposing Twitter API keys to the public, potentially enabling a threat actor to take over users' Twitter accounts that are associated with the app. [...]
A new batch of malicious Android apps filled with adware and malware was found on the Google Play Store that have been installed close to 10 million times on mobile devices. [...]
Google has added support for the DNS-over-HTTP/3 (DoH3) protocol on Android 11 and later to increase the privacy of DNS queries while providing better performance. [...]
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered three Android malware families infiltrating the Google Play Store, hiding their malicious payloads inside many seemingly innocuous applications. [...]
After hitting Germany, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, the US, and the U.K. the Roaming Mantis operation moved to targeting Android and iOS users in France, likely compromising tens of thousands of devices. [...]
A new Android malware family on the Google Play Store that secretly subscribes users to premium services was downloaded over 3,000,000 times. [...]
Amazon has confirmed and fixed a vulnerability in its Photos app for Android, which has been downloaded over 50 million times on the Google Play Store. [...]