By Eduard Kovacs on April 28, 2022
Google claims that it prevented 1.2 million bad applications from reaching Google Play in 2021, but cybercriminals are still finding ways to deliver malware through the official Android app store.
According to data shared by Google on Wednesday, its automated systems helped block 1.2 million “policy violating apps” from being published on Google Play, thus preventing billions of “harmful installations.”
In addition, the internet giant blocked 190,000 accounts belonging to bad developers, and it closed half a million developer accounts that were abandoned or inactive.
