The drama around Huawei's Google Play problem put a spotlight on the role that Android's premier app store plays in the mobile ecosystem. It is the official source of Android apps and advertises ...

In 2017, Google launched Google Play Protect with one simple goal: stop bad apps. Google Play Protect works by scanning apps daily and adapting over time to find bad code. If it finds a bad actor on ...

While Android has come a long way in its fight against so-called “bad actors” in the Play Store, Google isn’t able to stop every malicious app from making its way inside. So it’s stepping up its ...

Android has a bit of a malware problem. The open ecosystem's flexibility also makes it relatively easy for tainted apps to circulate on third-party app stores or malicious websites. Worse still, ...

The App Defense Alliance (ADA), an initiative set up by Google back in 2019 to combat malicious Android apps infiltrating the Play app store, has joined the Joint Development Foundation (JDF), a Linux ...

Bad apps, they have a tendency to show up on the Playstore and ruin things for a lot of people. Google has been doing its best to go after and remove these bad apps but the fact of the matter is, they ...

Google has announced the App Defense Alliance in collaboration with ESET, Lookout, and Zimperium that aims to prevent harmful and malicious Android apps from being listed on the Google Play Store.