{"id":233442,"date":"2026-03-17T02:22:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T07:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/android-17-blocks-non-accessibility-apps-from-accessibility-api-to-prevent-malware-abuse"},"modified":"2026-03-17T02:22:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T07:22:35","slug":"android-17-blocks-non-accessibility-apps-from-accessibility-api-to-prevent-malware-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/android-17-blocks-non-accessibility-apps-from-accessibility-api-to-prevent-malware-abuse","title":{"rendered":"Android 17 Blocks Non-Accessibility Apps from Accessibility API to Prevent Malware Abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/android-17-blocks-non-accessibility-apps-from-accessibility-api-to-prevent-malware-abuse.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Android 17 blocks non-accessibility apps from the Accessibility API in Advanced Protection Mode, reducing malware abuse and the attack surface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Android 17 blocks non-accessibility apps from the Accessibility API in Advanced Protection Mode, reducing malware abuse and the attack surface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}