Tapping the wrong part of the screen on one of the best Android phones could leave you and your device completely vulnerable to hackers. A team of security researchers at TU Wien and the University of ...

More than 800 Google Android apps have been targeted by a surge in PIN-stealing hack attacks. What you need to know.

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 ...

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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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 ...

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 ...

Pixnapping attacks can put data from your Android device directly in the hands of hackers. Credit: CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new type of ...

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 ...

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 ...