Android users will soon see real-time alerts when an installed app tries to read, forward, or silently dispose of their text messages, or when an app draws a hidden overlay on top of their screen.

Since Android 13, sideloaded apps have had a harder time getting accessibility permissions. Malicious apps often use them to try to breach the victim’s security and privacy, so Google has focused on ...

Google is slowly fixing its Play Store problem. We have already seen a cull of lower-quality, higher-risk apps, and we are now seeing ever more on-device monitoring to flag those devices behaving ...