{"id":211245,"date":"2026-02-08T07:48:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T12:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/08\/42-of-android-devices-are-now-vulnerable-to-security-risks\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T07:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T12:55:08","slug":"42-of-android-devices-are-now-vulnerable-to-security-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/08\/42-of-android-devices-are-now-vulnerable-to-security-risks\/","title":{"rendered":"42% of Android devices are now vulnerable to security risks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbytesapp.com\/news\/science\/42-android-phones-won-t-get-security-updates-risking-malware-attacks\/story\">42% of Android devices are now vulnerable to security risks<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbytesapp.com\/news\/science\/42-android-phones-won-t-get-security-updates-risking-malware-attacks\/story\">https:\/\/www.newsbytesapp.com\/news\/science\/42-android-phones-won-t-get-security-updates-risking-malware-attacks\/story<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-08 07:48:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.newsbytesapp.com\">www.newsbytesapp.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                                                                                Devices running Android 12 or older version will no longer receive security patches<\/p>\n<p>    <span class=\"subtitle\">What&#8217;s the story<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"content\">Google has warned that a large number of Android devices are vulnerable to malware and spyware attacks.<br \/>\nThe issue stems from the company&#8217;s decision to stop providing security patches for devices running Android 12 or older versions.<br \/>\nThis affects an estimated 42.1% of all Android phones, leaving them open to potential hacking attempts and other risks.\n    <\/p>\n<h3>Android fragmentation issue<\/h3>\n<p class=\"content\">The problem of Android fragmentation is a long-standing one, with Google not controlling when or if phone makers push updates.<br \/>\n    Companies like Samsung, Xiaomi, OPPO, Vivo, and Motorola manage their own schedules and often abandon devices after just a few years.<br \/>\n    As a result, only 57.9% of all devices are running Android 13 or newer versions.\n    <\/p>\n<h3>Contrast with Apple&#8217;s update system<\/h3>\n<p class=\"content\">Unlike Android, Apple controls both hardware and software, allowing it to push updates to older iPhones more consistently.<br \/>\n   &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbytesapp.com\/news\/science\/42-android-phones-won-t-get-security-updates-risking-malware-attacks\/story\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>42% of Android devices are now vulnerable to security risks https:\/\/www.newsbytesapp.com\/news\/science\/42-android-phones-won-t-get-security-updates-risking-malware-attacks\/story Publish Date: 2026-02-08 07:48:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":211246,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.cdn.newsbytesapp.com\/images\/l271_24901770550964.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70,32,116,158,86,57,117,118],"class_list":["post-211245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-google","tag-malware","tag-motorola","tag-oppo","tag-samsung","tag-security","tag-vivo","tag-xiaomi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211247,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211245\/revisions\/211247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}