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Looking at Android and Google Play as a single ecosystem, and a massive one at that with billions of users, Google has conceded that it “attracts its share of bad actors.” That’s the bad news, and ...

Google’s updated Play Integrity API is making it significantly harder for users with rooted phones or custom ROMs to access certain applications due to enhanced security verifications. The update, now ...

Google blocked 2.3 million Android app submissions to the Play Store in 2024 due to violations of its policies that made them potentially risky for users. In addition, 158,000 developer accounts were ...

In 2024, human reviewers on the Google Play security team were able to stop more harmful apps from making it to the Play Store than ever before. In 92% of these cases, the human reviewers used ...

Android向けアプリストアであるGoogle Playでは、2024年の初めから2025年4月にかけて約47％もアプリが減ったと、テクノロジー系メディアのTechCrunchが報じました。この理由については、詐欺やスパム、その他の低品質なアプリが排除されたことによるとみられてい ...

COMPANY NEWS: Bitdefender's security researchers have identified a large-scale ad fraud campaign that deployed hundreds of malicious apps in the Google Play Store, resulting in more than 60 million ...

The emergency order is the latest turn in a longstanding legal dispute between the tech giant and the creator of the popular ...