Google Prevented 2.28 Million Malicious Apps from Reaching Play Store in 2023
On Monday, Google disclosed that during the previous year, nearly 200,000 app submissions to its Play Store for Android were either remediated or rejected due to concerns about access to sensitive data, such location or SMS messages.
Additionally, the tech company claimed that 333,000 malicious accounts had been removed from the app storefront in 2023 because to continuous policy violations or attempts to transmit malware.
According to Google's Steve Kafka, Khawaja Shams, and Mohet Saxena, in 2023 we stopped 2.28 million policy-violating apps from being released on Google Play, in part because of our investment in new and better security features, policy updates, and sophisticated machine learning and app review processes.
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