Security News

What to do if your iPhone or Android smartphone gets stolen?
2024-10-18 04:00

A lost, stolen, or compromised smartphone today means we are in serious trouble. Most people have everything related to their personal and professional lives stored on their phones, a fact that...

Android 15 unveils new security features to protect sensitive data
2024-10-16 10:11

Android 15 brings enhanced security features to protect your sensitive health, financial, and personal data from theft and fraud. It also introduces productivity improvements for large-screen...

TrickMo Banking Trojan Can Now Capture Android PINs and Unlock Patterns
2024-10-15 15:47

New variants of an Android banking trojan called TrickMo have been found to harbor previously undocumented features to steal a device's unlock pattern or PIN. "This new addition enables the threat...

TrickMo malware steals Android PINs using fake lock screen
2024-10-14 17:34

Forty new variants of the TrickMo Android banking trojan have been identified in the wild, linked to 16 droppers and 22 distinct command and control (C2) infrastructures, with new features...

Google brings better bricking to Androids, to curtail crims
2024-10-08 02:59

Improved security features teased in May now appearing around the world Google has apparently started a global rollout of three features in Android designed to make life a lot harder for thieves...

Google Blocks Unsafe Android App Sideloading in India for Improved Fraud Protection
2024-10-07 09:15

Google has announced that it's piloting a new security initiative that automatically blocks sideloading of potentially unsafe Android apps in India, after similar tests in Singapore, Thailand, and...

Verizon outage: iPhones, Android devices stuck in SOS mode
2024-09-30 15:58

A widespread Verizon outage is causing iPhones and Android devices to enter SOS mode, preventing them from making mobile calls unless they use WiFi calling. [...]

Fake WalletConnect app on Google Play steals Android users’ crypto
2024-09-26 13:11

A crypto draining app mimicking the legitimate 'WalletConnect' project has been distributed over Google Play for five months getting more than 10,000 downloads. [...]

The number of Android memory safety vulnerabilities has tumbled, and here’s why
2024-09-26 12:21

Google’s decision to write new code into Android’s codebase in Rust, a memory-safe programming language, has resulted in a significant drop in memory safety vulnerabilities, despite old code...

Google sees 68% drop in Android memory safety flaws over 5 years
2024-09-25 17:00

The percentage of Android vulnerabilities caused by memory safety issues has dropped from 76% in 2019 to only 24% in 2024, representing a massive decrease of over 68% in five years. [...]