Update, Oct. 18, 2024: This story, originally published Oct. 15, now includes a statement from Google. Malicious surveillance application attacks are increasing in what one security company has ...

Google’s updated Play Integrity API is making it significantly harder for users with rooted phones or custom ROMs to access certain applications due to enhanced security verifications. The update, now ...

Google is cleaning up Android. The longtime app free-for-all is coming to an end, with a Play Store cull and tightening of restrictions around sideloading now hitting users, and Play Protect soon to ...

Google says that through 2025, it blocked more than 255,000 Android apps from obtaining excessive access to sensitive user data and rejected over 1.75 million apps from being published on Google Play ...