Researchers have revived a 12-year-old data theft technique, now called Pixnapping, that lets malicious Android apps steal ...

It allows a malicious Android application to access and leak information displayed in other Android apps or on websites. It can, for example, steal data displayed in apps like Google Maps, Signal, and ...

When you build a mobile app, two kinds of risks hide inside it. One lives in the code, and the risks are hard-coded secrets, weak encryption, and forgotten debug settings. The other only appears when ...

A newly discovered Android bug enables rogue apps to infer and rebuild on-screen visuals, potentially exposing private ...

Nova Launcher offered many pioneering features, but one was its rich search experience, powered by the long deprecated Sesame ...

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new type of attack that affects Android devices, and they say it lets hackers get ...

The other big change Google is making is to the post-capture experience. Currently, when you finish a screen recording, ...

Researchers have detailed the Pixnapping attack on Android, which has inferred on-screen data and exposed seed phrases and ...

Researchers have identified a new attack method that can allow malicious applications to steal sensitive data from Android ...

The 30 second interval was picked as authentication codes refresh within that time. Pixnapping bypasses Android's entire ...

Pixnapping side-channel can steal 2FA codes pixel-by-pixel on Android 13–16; CVE-2025-48561 patched Sept 2025 but workaround exists.