Researchers say mobile malware purveyors have been abusing a bug in the Google Android platform that lets them sneak malicious code into mobile apps and evade security scanning tools. Google says it has updated its app malware detection mechanisms in response to the new research. At issue is a mobile malware obfuscation method identified by […]
Tracked as CVE-2022-22706, the exploited bug is a kernel driver issue that Arm fixed in January 2022, but which had been targeted in attacks before that, Google reported in March 2023. Despite known exploitation, however, Google and other Android vendors took more than a year to incorporate the patches for CVE-2022-22706 in their software updates. […]
Google’s Android operating system dominates smartphone usage throughout the world — in every region except North America and Oceania, in fact. Thus, businesses in many regions are likely to support and issue Android devices to employees as their mainstay mobile devices. Even in areas where Apple’s iPhone dominates or is comparable in market share, businesses […]
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