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How Pixel and Android are bringing a new level of trust to your images with C2PA Content Credentials

Posted by Eric Lynch, Senior Product Manager, Android Security, and Sherif Hanna, Group Product Manager, Google C2PA Core At Made by Google 2025, we announced that the new Google Pixel 10 phones will support C2PA Content Credentials in Pixel Camera and Google Photos. This announcement represents a series of steps towards greater digital media transparency: The Pixel 10 lineup is the first to have Content Credentials built in across every photo created by Pixel Camera. The Pixel Camera app achieved Assurance Level 2, the highest security rating currently defined by the C2PA Conformance Program. Assurance Level 2 for a mobile app is currently only possible on the Android platform. A private-by-design approach to C2PA certificate management, where no i…

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Android’s pKVM Becomes First Globally Certified Software to Achieve Prestigious SESIP Level 5 Security Certification

Posted by Dave Kleidermacher, VP Engineering, Android Security & Privacy Today marks a watershed moment and new benchmark for open-source security and the future of consumer electronics. Google is proud to announce that protected KVM (pKVM), the hypervisor that powers the Android Virtualization Framework, has officially achieved SESIP Level 5 certification. This makes pKVM the first software security system designed for large-scale deployment in consumer electronics to meet this assurance bar. Supporting Next-Gen Android Features The implications for the future of secure mobile technology are profound. With this level of security assurance, Android is now positioned to securely support the next generation of high-criticality isolated workloads. This…

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Introducing OSS Rebuild: Open Source, Rebuilt to Last

Posted by Matthew Suozzo, Google Open Source Security Team (GOSST) Today we're excited to announce OSS Rebuild, a new project to strengthen trust in open source package ecosystems by reproducing upstream artifacts. As supply chain attacks continue to target widely-used dependencies, OSS Rebuild gives security teams powerful data to avoid compromise without burden on upstream maintainers. The project comprises: Automation to derive declarative build definitions for existing PyPI (Python), npm (JS/TS), and Crates.io (Rust) packages. SLSA Provenance for thousands of packages across our supported ecosystems, meeting SLSA Build Level 3 requirements with no publisher intervention. Build observability and verification tools that security teams can integrat…

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Advancing Protection in Chrome on Android

Posted by David Adrian, Javier Castro & Peter Kotwicz, Chrome Security Team Android recently announced Advanced Protection, which extends Google’s Advanced Protection Program to a device-level security setting for Android users that need heightened security—such as journalists, elected officials, and public figures. Advanced Protection gives you the ability to activate Google’s strongest security for mobile devices, providing greater peace of mind that you’re better protected against the most sophisticated threats. Advanced Protection acts as a single control point for at-risk users on Android that enables important security settings across applications, including many of your favorite Google apps, including Chrome. In this post, we’d like to do a d…

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Mitigating prompt injection attacks with a layered defense strategy

Posted by Adam Gavish, Google GenAI Security Team With the rapid adoption of generative AI, a new wave of threats is emerging across the industry with the aim of manipulating the AI systems themselves. One such emerging attack vector is indirect prompt injections. Unlike direct prompt injections, where an attacker directly inputs malicious commands into a prompt, indirect prompt injections involve hidden malicious instructions within external data sources. These may include emails, documents, or calendar invites that instruct AI to exfiltrate user data or execute other rogue actions. As more governments, businesses, and individuals adopt generative AI to get more done, this subtle yet potentially potent attack becomes increasingly pertinent across t…