Security News

Google expands Android AI scam detection to more Pixel devices
2025-03-04 17:00

Google has announced an increased rollout of new AI-powered scam detection features on Android to help protect users from increasingly sophisticated phone and text social engineering scams. [...]

Google fixes Android zero-day exploited by Serbian authorities
2025-03-04 11:38

Google has released patches for 43 vulnerabilities in Android's March 2025 security update, including two zero-days. Serbian authorities have used one of the zero-days to unlock confiscated devices. [...]

How Google tracks Android device users before they've even opened an app
2025-03-04 10:15

No warning, no opt-out, and critic claims ... no consent Research from a leading academic shows Android users have advertising cookies and other gizmos working to build profiles on them even...

Google's March 2025 Android Security Update Fixes Two Actively Exploited Vulnerabilities
2025-03-04 04:07

Google has released its monthly Android Security Bulletin for March 2025 to address a total of 44 vulnerabilities, including two that it said have come under active exploitation in the wild. The...

Vo1d Botnet's Peak Surpasses 1.59M Infected Android TVs, Spanning 226 Countries
2025-03-03 05:17

Brazil, South Africa, Indonesia, Argentina, and Thailand have become the targets of a campaign that has infected Android TV devices with a botnet malware dubbed Vo1d. The improved variant of Vo1d...

Amnesty Finds Cellebrite’s Zero-Day Used to Unlock Serbian Activist’s Android Phone
2025-02-28 16:48

A 23-year-old Serbian youth activist had their Android phone targeted by a zero-day exploit developed by Cellebrite to unlock the device, according to a new report from Amnesty International. "The...

Serbian police used Cellebrite zero-day hack to unlock Android phones
2025-02-28 16:27

Serbian authorities have reportedly used an Android zero-day exploit chain developed by Cellebrite to unlock the device of a student activist in the country and attempt to install spyware. [...]

Vo1d malware botnet grows to 1.6 million Android TVs worldwide
2025-02-27 22:49

A new variant of the Vo1d malware botnet has grown to 1,590,299 infected Android TV devices across 226 countries, recruiting devices as part of anonymous proxy server networks. [...]

Qualcomm pledges 8 years of security updates for Android kit using its chips (YMMV)
2025-02-26 18:57

Starting with Snapdragon 8 Elite and 'droid 15 It seems manufacturers are finally getting the message that people want to use their kit for longer without security issues, as Qualcomm has said...

OpenAI's GPT 4.5 spotted in Android beta, launch imminent
2025-02-26 12:39

OpenAI's newest model, GPT-4.5, is coming sooner than we expected. A new reference has been spotted on ChatGPT's Android app that points to a model called "GPT-4.5 research preview," but it looks...