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

Consumer-grade phone surveillance apps aren’t only intended to stay stealthy; some of these apps are also making it increasingly difficult to remove them ...

While the malicious apps weren't targeting users in the United States, you should make sure they aren't on your phone. We've ...

Google is announcing improvements for the Advanced Protection feature in Android 16 that strengthen defenses against sophisticated spyware attacks. The Android platform has been a constant target for ...

Hundreds of malicious Android apps on Google Play were downloaded more than 40 million times between June 2024 and May 2025, ...

Or worse, recording them? Well, that's exactly what could be happening if you accidentally installed a malicious app.Security ...

Italian spyware maker SIO, known to sell its products to government customers, is behind a series of malicious Android apps that masquerade as WhatsApp and other popular apps but steal private data ...

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, ...

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Facepalm: Theoretically, antimalware software should work to protect users' data from cybercrime. However, a newly discovered spyware campaign targeting Android devices is doing the opposite while ...

A rapidly evolving Android spyware campaign known as “ClayRat” has been discovered targeting Russian users through Telegram channels and phishing websites. The campaign, tracked by Zimperium zLabs ...

Two Android spyware campaigns using previously undocumented spyware masquerade as upgrades or plugins for secure messaging apps Signal and ToTok, warn researchers. The two campaigns appear to target ...