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Google announced a fresh set of security updates for the Android platform, to address two vulnerabilities in the System component.

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Google released Android 16 QPR2 Beta 3.3 today to its still-supported Pixel devices, from the Pixel 6 up through the newest Pixel 10 series. The update should be incredibly minor as we gear up for a stable release.

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Landfall is Android spyware that hit Samsung Galaxy phones via a zero click image flaw (CVE-2025-21042). Sent as DNG images, it enabled data theft and tracking. Samsung fixed it in an April 2025 update.

Hundreds of malicious Android apps on Google Play were downloaded more than 40 million times between June 2024 and May 2025, notes a report from cloud security company Zscaler.