Android mental health apps with 14.7M installs filled with security flaws

Several mental health mobile apps with millions of downloads on Google Play contain security vulnerabilities that could expose users' sensitive medical information.

Check Your Phone: Newly Discovered Play Store Apps are Leaking Private Data

Security researchers found several Play Store apps revealing personal data after an IDMerit database left over a billion records exposed.
Infosecurity Magazine

Android Malware Hijacks Google Gemini to Stay Hidden

A new Android malware implant using Google Gemini to perform persistence tasks was discovered on VirusTotal and analyzed by ESET ...

PromptSpy is the first known Android malware to use generative AI at runtime

Researchers have discovered the first known Android malware to use generative AI in its execution flow, using Google's Gemini ...
Gizmochina

These Motorola phones are receiving the Android 16 update

While Motorola isn’t the fastest brand when it comes to software rollouts, it’s improved a lot with the Android 16 rollout. In fact, it was one of the very first brands to push the Android 16 update, ...
HotHardware

Millions At Risk As Attackers Exploit This Alarming WinRAR Security Flaw

Remember the WinRAR path handling exploit we reported on back in August? According to Google, that same flaw, officially dubbed CVE-2025-8088, is still being actively exploited, even though versions ...
Kotaku

Steam Game Devs Call Exploit Allegations ‘Clickbait Exaggeration’ And ‘Malicious Defamation’

The developers behind a popular “open source MMO RTS sandbox game for programming enthusiasts” on Steam, named Screeps: World, have been forced to update their game “in order to protect both players” ...
Computerworld

Android 2026 preview: 7 things to watch

From swirling updates to confusing convergence and more than a few wacky experiments, 2026 is looking to be anything but uneventful for Google's Android platform. It’s hard to believe, but here we be ...
Android Police

How smarter scams exploit Wi-Fi — and what you can do about it

Faith writes guides, how-tos, and roundups on the latest Android games and apps for Android Police. You'll find her writing about the newest free-to-play game to hit Android or discussing her paranoia ...
CoinTelegraph

Truebit exploit exposes smart-contract flaw behind $26M token mint

Truebit lost $26 million after a smart-contract overflow bug let an attacker mint tokens at near-zero cost, sending the TRU price down 99%. A $26 million exploit of the offline computation protocol ...
Game Rant

ARC Raiders Players Have Found a New Exploit That Gives PC Player an Unfair Advantage

Pam's Colecovision was her babysitter, from the age of 4 or 5, but the family only had one game. Over and over, hour after hour, she'd climb and jump through the three levels of Donkey Kong. But the ...
Android Authority

How Android 16 quietly became Google’s best update in years

When Android 16 landed on Pixels early last summer, it didn’t make much of a splash. To say that many of us were disappointed by what we saw — or what we didn’t see, to be fair — would be an ...