Google Recaping Play Store and Android Protections annual blog article in 2024 is now available. It highlights new security measures, such as the way Google Play Protect cannot be deactivated during calls.
Google Play Protect now scans more than 200 billion applications each day, which is up 125 billion in 2023. In practice, realization in real time in 2024 has identified more than 13 million new malware from the outside from Google Play.
The “Scan Apps With Play Protect” setting cannot be deactivated during traditional telephone calls or vocal and video calls in “popular” third -party applications. (You can find this rocking in the Play Store menu> Account> Play Protect> Top-right corner settings.)
Google temporarily deletes the possibility of deactivating the protection of the game to counter social engineering attacks: “crooks can handle users in a disabling game protection during calls to download sideladé malware.” The user interface explicitly warns users: “If you are asked to deactivate the scanning of applications, it can be a scam to try to install harmful applications on your device.”
Meanwhile, Chrome for Android will remind users to reactivate game protection if it has been disabled.
According to our research, more than 95% of the application installations of large families of malicious software that exploits sensitive authorizations strongly correlated to financial fraud come from Side-sur Internet sources such as web browsers, messaging applications or managers files.
Google has also widened an improved protection pilot against fraud in Brazil, Hong Kong, India, Kenya, Nigeria, Philippines, South Africa, Thailand and Vietnam.
Finally: “Play Protect now automatically reveals authorizations for potentially harmful applications, limiting their access to sensitive data such as storage, photos and camera. Users can restore application authorizations at any time, with a confirmation step for additional security. »»
The other security statistics of Google Play 2024 include:
- … Prevent 2.36 million policies’ violation applications from being published on Google Play
- … Prohibition of more than 158,000 accounts of poor developers who have tried to publish harmful applications
- … We have prevented 1.3 million applications from obtaining excessive or useless access to sensitive user data.
- … More than 91% of application installations on Google Play Store now use the latest Android 13 or more recent protections.
- Applications using Play integrity features see 80% lower from unaccompanied and unreliable sources on average.
- Improved pilots of protection against the fraud of Google Protot protected 10 million aircraft of more than 36 million risky installation attempts, encompassing more than 200,000 unique applications.
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