Google Play Protect blocked 1.9B malware installs from non-Google sources last year

guest · Feb 11, 2020

Play Protect blocked 1.9B malware installs from non-Google sources last year
...has gone up from 1.6 billion, reported in 2017 and 2018, to 1.9 billion, last year
February 12, 2020
https://www.zdnet.com/article/play-...e-installs-from-non-google-sources-last-year/

Google Play Protect, a malware protection system that comes pre-installed on official Android devices, has blocked more than 1.9 billion malicious app installs that originated from unofficial (non-Google) sources in 2019, such as third-party app stores.
The number is up from 1.6 billion, reported in 2017 and 2018.

The rise in this number suggests two things. First is that Play Protect is better at detected and stopping malware than it was in previous years.
Second, it can also mean that more Android users are being tricked into installing malware-infected apps from outside the Play Store, or are now using third-party app stores to get their apps as they're being blocked from accessing the official store.

However, in November 2018, Google added a major upgrade to the Play Protect service by enhancing its database of known malware (PHA, potentially harmful apps) samples.
The rise in daily scans equates to Android's ever-growing userbase, but also to an improvement in device storage, allowing devices to store more apps than before.
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Android Developers Blog: How we fought bad apps and malicious developers in 2019

In 2019, we continued to strengthen our policies (especially to better protect kids and families), continued to improve our developer approval process, initiated a deeper collaboration with security industry partners through the App Defense Alliance, enhanced our machine learning detection systems analyzing an app’s code, metadata, and user engagement signals for any suspicious content or behaviors, as well as scaling the number and the depth of manual reviews.

The combination of these efforts have resulted in a much cleaner Play Store: [...]
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guest · Feb 13, 2020

Google: Efforts Against Bad Android Apps on Play Store Are Working
February 13, 2020
https://threatpost.com/google-efforts-against-bad-android-apps-work/152851/

Some of the efforts Google has made over the past few years to bolster the security of Android app users as well as the mobile apps available on its Google Play store are starting to work, according to the tech giant.
In what’s possibly the most important achievement, improved vetting mechanisms to keep bad apps off the store appear to be having some effect, he said.

Despite these milestones, Google is aware that security on Google Play remains an uphill battle. Ahn acknowledged in his post that there still is much work to do to improve the security of mobile apps on Google Play, something the company will continue to work on.

“Adversarial bad actors will continue to devise new ways to evade our detection systems and put users in harm’s way for their own gains,” he wrote. “Our commitment in building the world’s safest and most helpful app platform will continue in 2020.”
Looking ahead, key areas of Google Play security Google plans to continue to focus on include: Strengthening app safety policies to protect user privacy; faster detection of bad actors and blocking repeat offenders; and detecting and removing apps with harmful content and behaviors, Ahn said.
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