Friday, 15 February 2019

Google is blocking more malicious apps from entering the Play Store than ever, but it's still not enough

In case you couldn't tell by how often Google makes headlines nowadays by purging the Play Store of various types of malicious Android apps, the search giant has significantly ramped up the fight against "bad actors" and shady developers. At the same time, it's unfortunately also abundantly clear that there's a lot more work to be done in the mobile security and user privacy protection fields.

As highlighted in a new Android Developers Blog post, "bad actors will continue to try to evade" Google's increasingly complex systems by "changing their tactics and cloaking bad behaviors." ...

from PhoneArena http://bit.ly/2Sx6Zod

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