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SecurityWeek » Mobile & Wireless
2w ago
Google is boosting fraud and malware protections in Android 15 with live threat detection and expanded restricted settings.
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SecurityWeek » Mobile & Wireless
3w ago
Android’s May 2024 security update patches 38 vulnerabilities, including a critical bug in the System component.
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SecurityWeek » Mobile & Wireless
1M ago
Microsoft has uncovered a new type of attack called Dirty Stream that impacted Android apps with billions of installations.
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SecurityWeek » Mobile & Wireless
1M ago
Researchers can earn as much as $450,000 for a single vulnerability report as Google boosts its mobile vulnerability rewards program.
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SecurityWeek » Mobile & Wireless
1M ago
The new Wpeeper Android trojan ceased operations after a week and has zero detections in VirusTotal.
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SecurityWeek » Mobile & Wireless
1M ago
The Federal Communications Commission leveraged nearly $200 million in fines against wireless carriers AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon for illegally sharing customers’ location data.
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SecurityWeek » Mobile & Wireless
1M ago
In 2023, Google said it blocked 2.28 million bad applications from being published on Google Play and banned 333,000 developer accounts.
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SecurityWeek » Mobile & Wireless
1M ago
A new Android trojan named Brokewell can steal user’s sensitive information and allows attackers to take over devices.
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SecurityWeek » Mobile & Wireless
2M ago
Google this week patched two Pixel phone zero-day vulnerabilities actively exploited by forensic companies to obtain data from devices.
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SecurityWeek » Mobile & Wireless
2M ago
Google patches 28 vulnerabilities in Android and 25 bugs in Pixel devices, including two flaws exploited in the wild.
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