AI threats in the wild: The current state of prompt injections on the web
Posted by Thomas Brunner, Yu-Han Liu, Moni Pande At Google, our Threat Intelligence teams are dedicated to staying ahead of real-world adversarial activity, ...
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We beat Google’s zero-knowledge proof of quantum cryptanalysis
Two weeks ago, Google’s Quantum AI group published a zero-knowledge proof of a quantum circuit so optimized, they concluded that first-generation quantum com...
Bringing Rust to the Pixel Baseband
Posted by Jiacheng Lu, Software Engineer, Google Pixel Team Google is continuously advancing the security of Pixel devices. We have been focusing on hardenin...
Google Workspace’s continuous approach to mitigating indirect prompt injections
Posted by Adam Gavish, Google GenAI Security Team Indirect prompt injection (IPI) is an evolving threat vector targeting users of complex AI applications wit...
VRP 2025 Year in Review
Posted by Dirk Göhmann, Tony Mendez, and the Vulnerability Rewards Program Team 2025 marked a special year in the history of vulnerability rewards and bug bo...
Security for the Quantum Era: Implementing Post-Quantum Cryptography in Android
Posted by Eric Lynch, Product Manager, Android and Dom Elliott, Group Product Manager, Google Play Modern digital security is at a turning point. We are on t...
Cultivating a robust and efficient quantum-safe HTTPS
Posted by Chrome Secure Web and Networking Team Today we're announcing a new program in Chrome to make HTTPS certificates secure against quantum computers. T...
Staying One Step Ahead: Strengthening Android’s Lead in Scam Protection
Posted by Lyubov Farafonova, Product Manager, Phone by Google; Alberto Pastor Nieto, Sr. Product Manager Google Messages and RCS Spam and Abuse shared how An...
Keeping Google Play & Android app ecosystems safe in 2025
Posted by Vijaya Kaza, VP and GM, App & Ecosystem Trust Upgrading Google Play’s AI-powered, multi-layered user protections we prevented over 1.75 million pol...
PromptSpy ushers in the era of Android threats using GenAI
ESET researchers discover PromptSpy, the first known Android malware to abuse generative AI in its execution flow
Love? Actually: Fake dating app used as lure in targeted spyware campaign in Pakistan
ESET researchers discover an Android spyware campaign targeting users in Pakistan via romance scam tactics, revealing links to a broader spy operation
New Android Theft Protection Feature Updates: Smarter, Stronger
Posted by Nataliya Stanetsky, Fabricio Ferracioli, Elliot Sisteron, Irene Ang of the Android Security Team Phone theft is more than just losing a device; it'...
A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 9 Part 3: Where do we go from here?
While our previous two blog posts provided technical recommendations for increasing the effort required by attackers to develop 0-click exploit chains, our e...
A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 9 Part 1: Decoding Dolby
Over the past few years, several AI-powered features have been added to mobile phones that allow users to better search and understand their messages. One ef...
HTTPS certificate industry phasing out less secure domain validation methods
Posted by Chrome Root Program Team Secure connections are the backbone of the modern web, but a certificate is only as trustworthy as the validation process ...
Further Hardening Android GPUs
Posted by Liz Prucka, Hamzeh Zawawy, Rishika Hooda, Android Security and Privacy Team Last year, Google's Android Red Team partnered with Arm to conduct an i...
Architecting Security for Agentic Capabilities in Chrome
Posted by Nathan Parker, Chrome security team Chrome has been advancing the web’s security for well over 15 years, and we’re committed to meeting new challen...
Android expands pilot for in-call scam protection for financial apps
Posted by Aden Haussmann, Associate Product Manager and Sumeet Sharma, Play Partnerships Trust & Safety Lead Android uses the best of Google AI and our advan...
Android Quick Share Support for AirDrop: A Secure Approach to Cross-Platform File Sharing
Posted by Dave Kleidermacher, VP, Platforms Security & Privacy, Google Technology should bring people closer together, not create walls. Being able to commun...
Rust in Android: move fast and fix things
Posted by Jeff Vander Stoep, Android Last year, we wrote about why a memory safety strategy that focuses on vulnerability prevention in new code quickly yiel...