The Hacker News - Cybersecurity News and Analysis: mobile security

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new unpatched vulnerability in the Android operating system that dozens of malicious mobile apps...

Mobile carriers in the United States will finally offer a universal cross-carrier communication standard for the next-generation RCS messa...

Beware! Billion of Android users can easily be tricked into changing their devices' critical network settings with just an SMS-based ...

If you think that the media files you receive on your end-to-end encrypted secure messaging apps can not be tampered with, you need to th...

Are you sure the WhatsApp app you are using on your Android device is legitimate, even if it's working perfectly as intended? ...Or...

Smartphones are a goldmine of sensitive data, and modern apps work as diggers that continuously collect every possible information from y...

Google has started rolling out this month's security updates for its mobile operating system platform to address a total of 33 new se...

A bug hunter has discovered and publicly disclosed details of an unpatched browser address bar spoofing vulnerability that affects popula...

Even after Google's security oversight over its already-huge Android ecosystem has evolved over the years, malware apps still keep co...

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an iOS version of the powerful mobile phone surveillance app that was initially targeting Andro...

EXCLUSIVE — Beware, if you are using a Xiaomi's Mi or Redmi smartphone, you should immediately update its built-in MI browser or th...

What could be worse than this, if the software that's meant to protect your devices leave backdoors open for hackers or turn into mal...

Beware! If you are using UC Browser on your smartphones, you should consider uninstalling it immediately. Why? Because the China-made ...

Google has recently released the first beta version of Android Q, the next upcoming version of Google's popular mobile operating syste...

Just because an app is available on Google Play Store doesn't mean that it is a legitimate app. Despite so many efforts by Google, so...

You might have read somewhere online today that Google is granting Android app developers powers to forcefully install app updates…but it ...

Mobile security researchers have discovered unprotected Firebase databases of thousands of iOS and Android mobile applications that are ex...