Your smartphone holds your entire life, making it a prime target for hackers and spies. Here's how to protect it.

SpyNote, also known to some as SpyMax, is a highly dangerous spyware family designed to monitor, manage and modify a device (in this case, Androids). It can do many harmful activities, including ...

UPDATE: Google’s spokesperson reached out with a statement. The company has confirmed “that users are automatically protected from known versions of this spyware by Google Play Protect, which is on by ...

Brace yourself for this troubling revelation. A new report from researchers at the IT security solutions firm Dr. Web found that over 100 Android apps that collectively have over an astounding 421 ...

According to Unit 42, Landfall remained an active vulnerability on Samsung phones for months, remaining undetected until Samsung was alerted about it and patched it in April 2025. Unit 42 believes ...

Security researchers at Cisco Talos and the Citizen Lab have presented a new technical analysis of the commercial Android spyware 'Predator' and its loader 'Alien,' sharing its data-theft capabilities ...

A new version of the Android spyware 'Mandrake' has been found in five applications downloaded 32,000 times from Google Play, the platform's official app store. Bitdefender first documented Mandrake ...

LunaSpy Android spyware hides as an antivirus or banking protection app, spreading via messaging apps like Telegram. It fakes virus scans to trick you into granting permissions, then steals data, ...

Last year when security firm Lookout and the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab disclosed details of a particularly pernicious iOS spyware product called Pegasus, one unanswered question was whether ...

The vast majority of mobile devices infected with malware are running the Android operating system and a third of the top 20 malware threats for Android by infection rate fall into the spyware ...

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Russian military personnel are being targeted with recently discovered Android malware that steals their contacts and tracks their location. The malware is hidden inside a modified app for Alpine ...