More than 30% of Android phones still run Android 12 or older. That’s bad enough. But OEMs take time to deploy these fixes, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. A malicious hacking campaign that targets Android users has ...

Users are being urged to delete certain apps immediately after a major cyber attack infected millions of devices through a ...

Consisting of over 1.8 million infected devices, the Kimwolf Android Botnet focuses on traffic proxying, but can also launch ...

Attackers are using two known exploits to silently install ransomware on older Android devices when their owners browse to websites that load malicious advertisements. Web-based attacks that exploit ...

Over the past few years, Google has got much better at providing regular security updates to its Pixel phones, and other Android manufacturers including Samsung have also improved the length of time ...

The Android world is still reeling from the DroidDream invasion of the Android Market. Google has flipped the kill switch to wipe out apps associated with DroidDream, but the work of investigating how ...

A new malware threat is emerging, and those who own an Android smartphone should beware. The "Albiriox" malware can embed ...

Three weeks after Google released the May 2021 Android security update, the Google Project Zero team has revealed that four of the vulnerabilities patched were already under attack. "There are ...

A team of researchers has developed an eavesdropping attack for Android devices that can, to various degrees, recognize the caller's gender and identity, and even discern private speech. Named EarSpy, ...

A group of security researchers has developed an alarming tapjacking attack called TapTrap, which allows zero-permission apps to carry out actions that are not displayed on the screen. With TapTrap, ...