Google continues to fight against the spread of malicious apps in the Play Store. The company’s security protocol, Google Play Protection, scans billions of applications installed on billions of devices every day to limit damage and protect users.
Increasingly effective, Play Protect has allowed Google to remove: 1.2 million fake and malicious Android apps The American company announced this in a blog post later this year. Google assures that these apps violate the store’s regulations.
Google banned 190,000 developers from Play Store in 2021
Google also banned it in 2021 190,000 malicious developer accounts. These fake accounts belonged to developers who aimed to spread malware or collect personal data of Internet users. The firm also closed 500,000 developer accounts that were abandoned or inactive for too long.
Google’s security measures have helped reduce the number of apps in the Play Store. According to data from TradingPlatforms site, currently 2.5 million applications in storeIt has decreased by 28% in 4 years. In March 2018, there were still 3.6 million apps in the Google store.
Thanks to a combination of algorithms and human moderators, Google has slowly achieved: Remove malicious apps from Play Store. Despite the company’s efforts, it regularly seems that a computer virus manages to infiltrate the platform. Recently, an Android malware called FaceStealer appeared on the store to hack users’ Facebook accounts.
In order to protect Play Store users, Google has developed a new tool that aims to clearly show what data an app uses. These privacy forms are detailed in a very concrete way data an app uses directly in the store interface. In addition, for what purposes the data is collected, under what conditions it is shared and
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