Cybercriminals are quietly turning Android phones into remote-controlled skimmers that can hijack banking apps, drain crypto ...

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

With DroidLock, crooks take over a phone and threaten to delete its data if the owner doesn't pay up. Follow these steps to ...

With the increasing sophistication of digital threats, safeguarding your phone and personal data has never been more crucial. Android is responding with a suite of new security features designed to ...

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 ...

Following a reported surge in espionage activity, the agency in charge of countering cyber threats in the U.S. has updated ...

A new Android malware-as-a-service (MaaS) named Cellik is being advertised on underground cybercrime forums offering a robust ...

Mobile devices are always a tempting target for cybercriminals. That's true not just for consumers but for companies. According to Google, more than half of organizations have pointed to smartphones ...

Is your phone suddenly flooded with aggressive ads, slowing down performance or leading to unusual app behavior? Here’s what to do. Adware occupies something of a grey area in the threat landscape. At ...

Jon has been an author at Android Police since 2021. He primarily writes features and editorials covering the latest Android news, but occasionally reviews hardware and Android apps. His favorite ...

In February, days before the Super Bowl, Aravind Srinivas, CEO of AI search startup Perplexity, gave users a sparkly incentive to install its app. He posted on X that instead of buying a Super Bowl ad ...