You can unlock your phone's potential when you root Android and get access to all it can do. But do you even need that much power?

New Android malware can root infected devices to take complete control and silently tweak system settings, as well as evade detection using code abstraction and anti-emulation checks.

What does it mean to root an Android phone? Rooting a phone means reactivating functions that were disabled in the phone’s original Google operating system, explains Burton Kelso, a technology ...

In late 2016, Google’s security team scrambled to fix a critical vulnerability that allowed attackers to gain unfettered root access to Android devices by using a relatively new class of exploit ...

The vulnerability exists in rooting frameworks maintained by independent developers without formal security oversight. These tools, which enable users to gain root access to their devices, can be ...