Update as soon as possible if you have an Android phone. Google recently fixed a number of extremely serious bugs
Because Android—the Google-developed operating system, which currently holds a 72% market share—is so widely used, hackers frequently use it to infect mobile devices with their malware, obtaining private user data for extortion and financial gain.
Because of this, Google is always trying to enhance the Android operating system by adding new bug fixes that increase the security of our phones. This is demonstrated by the recent release of a new security update for Google View, which addresses two significant security flaws that hackers were already taking advantage of.
Google recently fixed two new security flaws in its April 2025 Android update, which TechCrunch reports "may be vulnerable to limited, targeted exploitation." The American company confirms this.
This indicates that hackers have already taken advantage of these two flaws to install their malware on a significant number of Android devices.
According to the US tech giant's April 2025 security bulletin, Benout Sevens, a member of Google's Threat Analysis Group, helped identify the first of these vulnerabilities, which was identified as CVE-2024-53197. The company specifically stated in February that it had found that Cellebrite, a business that supplies law enforcement agencies with devices to unlock and analyze phones, was using a set of three "zero-day" vulnerabilities to hack Android devices, which were purportedly used by Serbian authorities against a student activist.
As for the second vulnerability, whose internal code is CVE-2024-53150, we only know that Google's Sevens module found it in the Android kernel and that the Android 2025 security patch fixed it this week.