Android’s March 2025 security update addresses over 40 vulnerabilities, including two actively exploited in the wild.
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Amnesty Reveals Cellebrite Zero-Day Android Exploit on Serbian Student Activist
Amnesty International publishes technical details on zero-day vulnerabilities exploited by Cellebrite’s mobile forensic tools to spy on a Serbian student activist.
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Qualcomm Extends Security Support for Android Devices to 8 Years
Qualcomm says it’s working with Google to ensure that Android device manufacturers will be able to provide security updates for 8 years.
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Vulnerability Patched in Android Possibly Exploited by Forensic Tools
The February 2025 Android patches resolve 46 vulnerabilities, including a Linux kernel bug that has been exploited in the wild.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Android’s September 2024 Update Patches Exploited Vulnerability
Google has released Android security updates to patch an exploited local privilege escalation vulnerability.
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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.
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