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  ESET antivirus experts have released a new list of Android messaging apps that track users and steal their information. These are apps from the Google Play Store and almost all of them look like regular messaging apps. However, behind the scenes they run a remote device access Trojan known as "VajraSpy" and are part of the "Patchwork APT" campaign, with the primary goal of spying on downloaders. These apps can steal your contacts, files, call history and messages, and some can even access your WhatsApp or Signal conversations, record phone calls or see what notifications you receive, the website PhoneArena" published post. The worst that has been discovered is that they can take pictures of users and record sound in the environment. They are primarily used in Pakistan and India, but it is possible to find them in other areas as well. If you accidentally came across them, skip them, and if you downloaded them, delete them. These are the Google Play Store apps

  The website Android Authority has released information about a feature that will make it much easier to monitor battery health for Android device users. According to the document, which was published by Android expert Mishal Rahman, Google could start offering users notifications that their device's battery has degraded. Android users currently have to resort to external apps or use special commands to check battery health, whereas Apple has been offering iPhone battery health statistics for quite some time. Android 14 QPR2 Beta 2 has a hidden Battery Health app, according to Rahman. While it doesn't yet activate the battery health meter, the codes indicate that the option will display information such as the percentage of battery charge compared to when the battery was new. Icons are also detected indicating that the battery is low or unable to read the battery. In the Settings section, alerts are sent when there are battery health updates (when the phone can't r

  Stanford students have created a new artificial intelligence project that has the potential to become a "privacy nightmare" because it can determine the location where a photo was taken. The project is called PIGEON (Image Geolocation Prediction) and is designed to help find the locations where Google Street View photos were taken. However, when given several photos it had never seen before, this AI model was able to find their locations with great accuracy. Jay Stanley of the American Civil Liberties Union says this could have serious privacy implications, including government surveillance, corporate surveillance and tracking. For example, governments could use PAGEON to find dissidents or see if you've visited "forbidden" sites. All in all, in the wrong hands, this kind of technology can wreak havoc. Motivated by these concerns, the students said that the technology would not be available to the public, but if they could do something like this, the o

  Nowadays, it seems nearly impossible to keep something like your location a secret, and we are often left at the mercy of companies to take the appropriate steps to ensure this. To achieve just that goal, Google has released new location controls for Maps designed to give you better control over what data is captured and where. One of the most significant changes being introduced is the option to save your Timeline directly to your device instead of the cloud. If you do not already know, the Timeline is an encrypted record of all the areas and attractions you have visited. You need to turn on location history; it is off by default, to activate Timeline. As part of the Google Maps update, Location History will automatically delete your data after three months, compared to the previous 18 months. However, you can delete all information whenever you want or you can turn off automatic deletion. Additionally, you can turn off Location History at any time. Google Maps will also let you cli

Meta said it will introduce default encryption for personal calls and messages through the Messenger app so "no one, including Meta, can see what is being sent or said." It's a major update to privacy terms reminiscent of Meta's other app, WhatsApp, CNBC reports. Messenger boss Loredana Crisan added in an accompanying post on the company's blog that it will take an indefinite amount of time to encrypt all conversations. In 2016, users were given the option to choose whether they wanted to protect their communications through so-called end-to-end encryption, and now it will be the default option. This change was confirmed by the CEO of "Meta", Mark Zuckerberg, with a post on the social network "Facebook" and on that occasion he congratulated the team for a job well done.

  “Google” has officially announced plans to phase out third-party cookies as part of the “Privacy Sandbox” initiative. This approach will be implemented in phases and will begin testing 1% of users in early 2024, followed by a more extensive elimination of third-party cookies during the third quarter of next year. External cookies are tracking codes that are placed by websites and are used primarily for online advertising and tracking user habits on different websites. They help advertisers create profiles of users' interests, after which they can offer them more specific ads. However, these same external cookies can also be used to track the user's browsing habits, leading to a loss of privacy. “Google's” decision to eliminate third-party cookies will represent a significant step forward in protecting online privacy. The process aims to reduce the tracking of users across the network, while allowing the most essential online services to remain easily accessible. During th

Google Bard users can now get details about the YouTube videos they watch thanks to an AI chatbot. The new extension that Bard received allows it to understand what the content of the video is and, based on that, responds to requests for information made by users. "We're taking the first steps to improve Bard's understanding of YouTube videos… we've heard you want to dig deeper into YouTube videos." So we're expanding the YouTube extension so you can talk to Bard about it," Google said. Thanks to this, when you ask the Bard to find you a particular clip, you can now ask it additional questions about the contents of that clip, including a summary or something for specific details. Let's recall that in September Google announced a number of new options that come with artificial intelligence on services such as Flights, Maps, Docs, Dive, Gmail and many others.