Five years ago, researchers made a grim discovery—a legitimate Android app in the Google Play market that was surreptitiously made malicious by a library the developers used to earn advertising ...

(RTTNews) - Google Play Store's reward program for security researchers who find vulnerabilities in popular Android apps would be discontinued on August 31, the company announced in an email to ...

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Sources are warning of a newly-discovered Unity security flaw that allows code injection in Android games, potentially compromising crypto wallets on the device.

Google has announced that it is winding down the Google Play Security Reward Program. The program was introduced in late 2017 to incentivize security researchers to find and responsibly disclose ...

Google is shutting down its bug bounty program. As reported by Android Authority, the company is sunsetting the Google Play Security Reward Program on Aug. 31. Google will review any reports submitted ...

Looking at Android and Google Play as a single ecosystem, and a massive one at that with billions of users, Google has conceded that it “attracts its share of bad actors.” That’s the bad news, and ...

Seventy-seven malicious Android apps with more than 19 million installs were delivering multiple malware families to Google Play users. This malware infiltration was discovered by Zscaler's ThreatLabs ...

Google has released the May 2025 security updates for Android with fixes for 45 security flaws, including an actively exploited zero-click FreeType 2 code execution vulnerability. FreeType is a ...