Google releases Pixel update to get rid of surveillance vulnerability

Last month, it was discovered that an inactive portion of bundle that ships connected each Google Pixel smartphones presented a imaginable information vulnerability for instrumentality owners. The institution rapidly said it would region “Showcase.apk,” which was created years agone “for Verizon in-store demo devices and is nary longer being used.” But successful the disconnected accidental it was ever exploited, cybersecurity signifier iVerify recovered that the bundle could marque phones “accessible to hackers and ripe for man-in-the-middle attacks, codification injection, and spyware.” The flareup was capable for Palantir to instrumentality a company-wide prohibition connected Android devices.

At the time, Google told america that it had “seen nary grounds of immoderate progressive exploitation,” and with today’s merchandise of the monthly Pixel bundle update, it’s getting escaped of Showcase.apk altogether. The merchandise notes corroborate that the September spot includes a hole to “remove third-party APK to code information vulnerability.”

Other than that, it’s a precise tiny update, with improvements to Wi-Fi stableness and show for Google’s marque caller Pixel 9 portfolio arsenic the lone different slug point. Bigger bundle upgrades await adjacent month; that’s erstwhile Google plans to rotation retired Android 15 to its devices. The large OS update was released to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) today, but it’ll beryllium a fewer much weeks until it’s acceptable for Pixel hardware.