Google Stops Malicious Apps With 'AI-Powered Threat Detection' and Continuous Scanning

Android and Google Play have billions of users, Google wrote in its security blog this week. "However, like any flourishing ecosystem, it also attracts its share of bad actors... That's why every year, we continue to invest in more ways to protect our community." Google's tactics include industry-wide alliances, stronger privacy policies, and "AI-powered threat detection."
"As a result, we prevented 2.36 million policy-violating apps from being published on Google Play and banned more than 158,0