Uh oh! 1+ million Android apps exposed 700 TB of sensitive user data

Towards the end of January, security researchers at Cybernews published a study on AI apps in the Google Play Store. The study revealed that numerous AI apps had inadequate security, leading them to ...
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Here's how Android 15 protects your two-factor authentication codes from malicious apps

Android 15 blocks untrusted apps from reading sensitive notifications, even if they have permission to read all notifications. Before Android 15, apps with notification access were able to read all ...
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Android's Pixnapping Attack Can Steal 2FA Codes and Private Messages

Malicious apps can now steal sensitive data by exploiting your phone’s graphics processing without requesting any permissions. Your Android phone just became a surveillance device, and you probably ...

Researchers found millions of Android AI apps leaking credentials

Researchers found millions of Android apps leaking credentials, enabling data exposure breaches, and financial abuse across poorly monitored cloud services ...
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New Android Pixnapping attack steals MFA codes pixel-by-pixel

A new side-channel attack called Pixnapping enables a malicious Android app with no permissions to extract sensitive data by stealing pixels displayed by applications or websites, and reconstructing ...
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Android 17 may finally add the native App Lock feature Pixel users have been waiting for

Google may be working on a native App Lock feature for Android 17 that lets users secure specific apps without the restrictions of Private Space. This new API allows the default launcher to lock apps, ...