New warning for Android users.
There is a frightening number of Android phones running a daily risk of infection with serious malware, the owners of phones losing passwords, financial information and personal data sensitive to attackers. And now Google has suddenly added more than 200 million phones to this danger list. These users now need a new phone.
As indicated by Android authority“Google no longer makes safety fixes on Android 12 or 12L, as the two operating systems have reached end -of -life status.
Google has already drawn a line between Android 13 and everything that is older, with its API Play Integrity allowing applications to limit the functionality and features of the phones always performing Android 12 or an even older and already retired version of the operating system. According to StatcounterThis could mean that more than a third of Android devices are now in danger. With some 3 billion Android devices, it is a scary level of exposure.
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Google does not comment, but Android authority reports that the company “put an end to Android 12 and 12L on March 31, 2025 … with the Android security bulletin for March 2025 being the last bulletin to list the fixes for these two versions.” To concentrate users affected by minds, this means that April Critic Critics of Android Corrects to protect phones from known active attacks are not available for your phone.
The 200 million Android people 12 newly vulnerable A are the top of a scary iceberg, with Attention The reporting of Android and iPhone devices of several billion can now be without support, leaving a device and data on IT vulnerable to known and unknown exploits. »»
In simple terms, if you have an Android 12 executing phone, sort an update as soon as you can. The landscape of mobile threats does not become safer. The risks are not worth it.
