Every year Google has its national monopoly on security in the Google ecosystem. As 2019 closed more than a month ago, the company published a report outlining what it's like the result of different security measures taken during the year.
While we get new malware news on Google Play almost every week, at Google they seem to be satisfied with the changes introduced recently, such as additional control over SMS permissions or in-depth analysis
Android, it's much safer
In 2019, Google met ESET, Checkout and Zimperium to share information about threats, samples and adoption programs, to develop adoption systems for each of them, including Google Play Protect. The alliance took place almost a year later, so that its impact had not yet been highlighted by Google in its report.
What we do has a very limited scope SMS permissions and call history. Applications with such permission have been reduced by 98% in 2019, 2% are out-of-state approved: those applications that require such permissions by their environment (SMS applications, bookmarks or backups).
A great way to protect Android users from malware from even accessing the store, is where the early detection systems began to work. According to Google, they have set foot on 790,000 applications They have violated their policies before being published in their store.
And what about installed apps from outside of Google Play? Google Play Protect is also updating these apps – unless disabled – by 2019 prevented the installation of 1.9 billion applications with malware
Not everything went wrong, and there was a time for it manage content store In 2019, Google has asked all developers to consider whether their app had children as its primary audience, in which case apps should comply with the more restrictive privacy policies. In addition, those apps that are not child-focused should ensure that they do not inadvertently attract children (for example, screen or app title).
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