Critical Android vulnerabilities patched—update as soon as you can

Google has patched six vulnerabilities in Android, including two critical vulnerabilities in its August 2025 Android Security Bulletin. It also covers a critical vulnerability which could have allowed an attacker to execute code on a victim's device without the victim needing to do anything at al...

⚡ Weekly Recap: Chrome 0-Day, IngressNightmare, Solar Bugs, DNS Tactics, and More

Every week, someone somewhere slips up—and threat actors slip in. A misconfigured setting, an overlooked vulnerability, or a too-convenient cloud tool becomes the perfect entry point. But what happens when the hunters become the hunted? Or when old malware resurfaces with new tricks? Step behind...

Android Phones Can Get Hacked Just by Looking at a PNG Image

Using an Android device? Beware! You have to remain more caution while opening an image file on your smartphone—downloaded anywhere from the Internet or received through messaging or email apps. Yes, just viewing an innocuous-looking image could hack your Android smartphone—thanks to three...

initroot: Bypassing Nexus 6 Secure Boot through Kernel Command-line Injection

In the May 2017 Android Security Bulletin, Google released a patch to a critical and unique vulnerability CVE-2016-10277 in the Nexus 6 bootloader we had found and responsibly disclosed. By exploiting the vulnerability, a physical adversary or one with authorized-ADB/fastboot USB access to the...

Critical Qualcomm flaw puts millions of Android devices at risk

Google has patched a high-severity vulnerability that has been around for the last five years, potentially leaving users' text messages, call histories, and other sensitive data open to snooping. The vulnerability, CVE-2016-2060, affects Android versions 4.3 and earlier that use the software...

Hacker Finds a Simple Way to Bypass Android 5.x Lock Screen [Steps & Video]

A Security researcher and hacker, named John Gordon, has found an easy way to bypass the security of locked smartphones running Android 5.0 and 5.1 Build LMY48M. Many of us use various security locks on our devices like Pattern lock, PIN lock and Password lock in order to protect the privacy of o...

Microsoft warning: Windows PC there are also Freak security vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Microsoft on Friday warned that hundreds of millions of Windows PC users are facing a“Freak”security vulnerability threats, and that a newly discovered security vulnerability was initially considered only for mobile devices and Apple Mac computers pose a threat. On Tuesday, by 9 The name of...

New App ReKey Fixes Android Master Key Vulnerability

The Android master key vulnerability disclosed a couple of weeks ago puts nearly all Android phones at risk of attacks that can modify legitimate apps with malicious code that would give the attacker full control of the device. Google has released a patch, but Android users are dependent upon the...

Chinese Hackers discovered second Android master key vulnerability

Android Security Squad, the China-based group that uncovered a second Android master key vulnerability that might be abused to modify smartphone apps without breaking their digital signatures. The whole point of digitally signing a document or file is to prove the file hasn't been modified. The...

Android Master Key Bug Details Made Public

The details of the Android vulnerability that enables an attacker to create a malicious update to an APK file without breaking its cryptographic signature have become public but it appears as though Google will have a patch ready for the flaw by the time it’s fully disclosed early next month. The...