Fighting malware on Android is not relaxing. Google recently shared some statistics on what it was like in 2019 on Google Play Protect: 1.9 billion malicious app installations have been discontinued, and Google is now highlighting in all new releases news on fighting malware for Android.
Android malware is emerging, and through the security measures introduced by the operating system and its Google Play Protocol security layer, analyze 100,000 applications daily. Google highlights the major changes to Android protection over the past year.
A few different discoveries
Malware protection programs should be flexible in their availability, otherwise small differences in malicious software can continue to increase. According to Google, Google Play Protect Ads now includes variants of known malware.
This is also found happens on the device and it happens faster than before. Google gives us the fact that since October 2019, about five months ago, Google Play Protitor has sent more than 380,000 notifications when it tried to install such potentially harmful apps.
App alerts are for classic types
Virtually every version of Android includes its own privacy and security issues, or prevents hundreds of thousands of developers from changing their entire operation, these restrictions are occasionally used. In this way, apps made for classic Android versions
This works to not break non-renewable systems, despite the unpleasant side effect: malware developers take advantage of it to exploit security issues that have been taken.
In the fall of 2019, Google Play Protect will start showing Notifications when the app is made for an older Android operating system, just before installing it. This does not mean that it is dangerous, and in any case the user can choose to install it anyway.
Suspicious applications are sent to Google
Some recent changes allow users submit sample plans will be reviewed by Google Play Protect. The notification in this case will appear in applications that have never been updated before, and you have the opportunity to automatically use the submission of all anonymous applications for your mobile phone.
Another change
The Google Play change did not end there. Google Play Protect is also very visible, integrating into Google Files and renaming to make it clear in Google Play when Play Protect is active or inactive.
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