Android users are being reminded to be careful about the files they open on their smartphones, after the discovery that harmless-looking image files could be harbouring malicious code. In its Android ...

New Android Bug Can Let Hackers Attack Phone With PNG Image File The good news is that Google has patched the problems with an update to Android. Unfortunately, many third-party device makers can ...

Eleven critical bugs will be patched as part of the February Android Security Bulletin. Google has patched a critical vulnerability in its current and legacy versions of its Android operating system, ...

Opening a single image in PNG format may be enough for your Android phone to be compromised by hackers, and that's regardless of how tech-savvy you might be. That's because a vulnerability in Android ...

Opening a cute cat meme or innocent landscape photo may seem harmless enough, but if it happens to be in a .PNG format, your Android device could be critically compromised due to a new attack. In ...

Android users are being told to patch their Android OS Nougat (7.0), Oreo (8.0) and Pie (9.0) as soon as updates are available after a bug related to PNG images was found. Your Android could be pwned ...

A vulnerability in Google LLC’s Android operating system can allow hackers to hijack a device by simply displaying an infected PNG image file. The vulnerability, found in Android 7.0 Nougat through to ...

Corbin is a tech journalist and developer who worked at Android Police from 2016 until 2021. Check out his other work at corbin.io. GIFs have long been the image format of choice when it came to short ...