Mobile & Wireless Android’s October 2024 Update Patches 26 Vulnerabilities Google ships patches for 26 high-severity vulnerabilities as part of Android’s October 2024 security update. Ionut ArghireOctober 8, 2024
Mobile & Wireless Google Hardens Pixel’s Baseband Security Mitigations Pixel 9 comes with improved security hardening mitigations against common exploits on cellular basebands. Ionut ArghireOctober 4, 2024
Mobile & Wireless Google Sees Drop in Memory Safety Bugs in Android as Code Matures Memory safety bugs in Android have decreased significantly as old code matures and new code uses memory-safe languages. Ionut ArghireSeptember 26, 2024
Malware & Threats Necro Trojan Infects Google Play Apps With Millions of Downloads The Necro trojan was found in two Android applications in Google Play with a combined downloads count of over 11 million. Ionut ArghireSeptember 23, 2024
IoT Security 1.3 Million Android TV Boxes Infected by Vo1d Malware Doctor Web warns of the new Vo1d Android malware infecting roughly 1.3 million TV boxes running older OS versions. Ionut ArghireSeptember 13, 2024
Security Architecture Google Pushes Rust in Legacy Firmware to Tackle Memory Safety Flaws Google’s adoption of memory safe programming languages now includes the deployment of Rust in legacy low-level firmware codebases. Ryan NaraineSeptember 9, 2024
Mobile & Wireless Android’s September 2024 Update Patches Exploited Vulnerability Google has released Android security updates to patch an exploited local privilege escalation vulnerability. Ionut ArghireSeptember 4, 2024
Vulnerabilities Google Patches Android Zero-Day Exploited in Targeted Attacks Google has patched CVE-2024-36971, a high-severity kernel zero-day vulnerability in Android that has been exploited in targeted attacks. Eduard KovacsAugust 6, 2024
Mobile & Wireless Microsoft Banning Android Phones for Staff in China Starting in September, Microsoft will mandate the the use of Apple’s iPhones to authenticate identities when logging into work machines. SecurityWeek NewsJuly 8, 2024
Mobile & Wireless Google Patches 25 Android Flaws, Including Critical Privilege Escalation Bug Google ships an Android security update with fixes for 15 vulnerabilities, including a critical-severity flaw in Framework. Ionut ArghireJuly 2, 2024
Mobile & Wireless 37 Vulnerabilities Patched in Android Android’s June 2024 security update resolves 37 vulnerabilities, including high-severity flaws in Framework and System. Ionut ArghireJune 4, 2024
Mobile & Wireless Android 15 Brings Improved Fraud and Malware Protections Google is boosting fraud and malware protections in Android 15 with live threat detection and expanded restricted settings. Ionut ArghireMay 16, 2024