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 ...

Security researchers have disclosed a proof-of-concept exploit capable of obtaining root access on Android 17 by combining ...

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 ...

Google, back in May, said that it would be making it harder for bad actors to bypass the lock screen in order to break into ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...