Google to verify all Android devs to block malware on Google Play
Google is introducing a new defense for Android called ‘Developer Verification’ to block malware installations from sideloaded apps sourced from outside the official Google Play app store. For apps on Google Play, there was already a requirement for publishers to provide a D-U-N-S (Data Universal Numbering System) number, introduced on August 31, 2023. Google says this has had a notable […]
Malicious Android apps with 19M installs removed from Google Play
Seventy-seven malicious Android apps with more than 19 million installs were delivering multiple malware families to Google Play users. This malware infiltration was discovered by Zscaler’s ThreatLabs team while investigating a new infection wave with Anatsa (Tea Bot) banking trojan targeting Android devices. While most of the malicious apps (over 66%) included adware components, the most common Android […]
Google is adding “Projects” feature to Gemini to run research tasks
Google’s Gemini is now testing a new feature called “Projects.” This will be similar to OpenAI’s Project Feature for ChatGPT. With Projects, you can add files, documents or your code. Then, you can ask Gemini to reference those files in project conversations. Google describes this as a feature where you “start by adding files to the project. Gemini […]
Google Gemini’s Deep Research is finally coming to API
Google Gemini’s one of the most powerful features is Deep Research, but up until now, it has been strictly limited to the Gemini interface. This could change soon. With Deep Research in Gemini, you can search about pretty much anything, including scholars, existing research papers, and more. Google describes Deep Research as an agentic Research […]
OpenAI rolls out Gmail, Calendar, and Contacts integration in ChatGPT
OpenAI wants ChatGPT to know more about you, including your emails, calendar events in Google Calendar, and even your Google contacts, to reference everything in a conversation. In a new support document update, OpenAI confirmed it’s rolling out support for Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Contacts Connectors in ChatGPT (Pro). For those unaware, Connectors allow you to […]
Google confirms data breach exposed potential Google Ads customers’ info
Google has confirmed that a recently disclosed data breach of one of its Salesforce CRM instances involved the information of potential Google Ads customers. “We’re writing to let you know about an event that affected a limited set of data in one of Google’s corporate Salesforce instances used to communicate with prospective Ads customers,” reads a data breach […]
Google suffers data breach in ongoing Salesforce data theft attacks
Google is the latest company to suffer a data breach in an ongoing wave of Salesforce CRM data theft attacks conducted by the ShinyHunters extortion group. In June, Google warned that a threat actor they classify as ‘UNC6040′ is targeting companies’ employees in voice phishing (vishing) social engineering attacks to breach Salesforce instances and download customer data. […]
Android gets patches for Qualcomm flaws exploited in attacks
Google has released security patches for six vulnerabilities in Android’s August 2025 security update, including two Qualcomm flaws exploited in targeted attacks. The two security bugs, tracked as CVE-2025-21479 and CVE-2025-27038, were reported through the Google Android Security team in late January 2025. The first is a Graphics framework incorrect authorization weakness that can lead to memory corruption […]
OpenAI could rival Google Shopping with ChatGPT Shop
AI companies like OpenAI and Perplexity like to be the “everything company,” and OpenAI’s latest ChatGPT feature, “Shopping,” makes that obvious. Financial Times recently reported that ChatGPT is testing a new shopping feature where you could buy products directly from the app. When ChatGPT ‘converts’ sales for merchants, OpenAI gets a percentage of the revenue. This is […]
OpenAI prepares Sora 2 to take on Google’s Veo 3
OpenAI has had enough of Google’s Veo 3 dominating generative AI videos and is now working on Sora 2, the successor to Sora. As spotted on X, OpenAI’s servers now include references to “Sora 2,” which makes it obvious that OpenAI has developed a new generative video model. Sora shipped on December 9, 2024, and it’s been […]