As part of its ongoing efforts to make Android smartphones more secure, Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) often spends its time looking for zero-day vulnerabilities which can be exploited by cybercriminals and other threat actors. These vulnerabilities pose a serious risk to users as they have been disclosed but have not yet patched.
In a new blog post, TAG highlights three separate campaigns that took place between August and October of 2021, in which state-backed attackers used five different zero-day vulnerabilities to install the Predator spyware on fully updated Android devices.[Read more]