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 ...

A team of academic researchers has uncovered a new Android security exploit that raises a lot of questions about the platform’s permission system. The technique, named TapTrap, uses user interface ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about cybersecurity, surveillance and privacy. Advanced Protection Mode, Google says, protects you from “online ...

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 ...

Security researchers have uncovered a vulnerability affecting millions of Android devices that could allow attackers to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Samsung has scampered to fix a severe zero-day vulnerability, which was proactively utilized by creative attackers who aim the Android user base and the vulnerability has been obsequiously detected by ...

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 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, ...

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 ...

Cybersecurity is a topic increasingly present in the public’s mind. There are companies that have tried to raise awareness among users about safe practices when using their internet-connected devices.