Over 60,000 Android apps disguised as legitimate applications have been quietly installing adware on mobile devices while remaining undetected for the past six months.
Google has released the monthly security update for the Android platform, adding fixes for 56 vulnerabilities, five of them with a critical severity rating and one exploited since at least last December.
Google has released a security update for Chrome web browser to address the third zero-day vulnerability that hackers exploited this year.
The SpinOk malware was found in a new batch of Android apps on Google Play, reportedly installed an additional 30 million times.
Google has removed from the Chrome Web Store 32 malicious extensions that could alter search results and push spam or unwanted ads. Collectively, they come with a download count of 75 million.
Google announced today that bug bounty hunters who report sandbox escape chain exploits targeting its Chrome web browser are now eligible for triple the standard reward until December 1st, 2023.
A new Android malware distributed as an advertisement SDK has been discovered in multiple apps, many previously on Google Play and collectively downloaded over 400 million times.
Google has launched the Mobile Vulnerability Rewards Program (Mobile VRP), a new bug bounty program that will pay security researchers for flaws found in the company's Android applications.
Google has updated its policy for personal accounts across its services to allow a maximum period of inactivity of two years.
A cybercriminal tracked as the "Lemon Group" has been infecting millions of Android-based smartphones, watches, TVs, and TV boxes, with a malware strain named 'Guerilla.'
Cybersecurity researchers and IT admins have raised concerns over Google's new ZIP and MOV Internet domains, warning that threat actors could use them for phishing attacks and malware delivery.
Google announced today that all Gmail users in the United States will soon be able to use the dark web report security feature to discover if their email address has been found on the dark web.
Google announced today that the lock icon, long thought to be a sign of website security and trustworthiness, will soon be changed with a new icon that doesn't imply that a site is secure or should be trusted.
Apple and Google have joined forces to push for the adoption of new industry standards designed to put a stop to stalking via Bluetooth-enabled location-tracking devices.
A set of 38 Minecraft copycat games on Google Play infected devices with the Android adware 'HiddenAds' to stealthily load ads in the background to generate revenue for its operators.
Google says it banned 173,000 developer accounts in 2022 to block malware operations and fraud rings from infecting Android users' devices with malicious apps.
Google is bringing end-to-end encryption to Google Authenticator cloud backups after researchers warned users against synchronizing 2FA codes with their Google accounts.
The Google Authenticator app has received a critical update for Android and iOS that allows users to back up their two-factor authentication one-time passwords (OTPs) to their Google Accounts and have multi-device support.
Google has released a security update for the Chrome web browser to fix the second zero-day vulnerability found to be exploited in attacks this year.
Google Search is currently suffering a partial outage that prevents the search engine from returning search results for some people.