Google offers a new solution Your phone will not be hacked with this new feature in Android
A few days ago, news broke that in the past year, around 200 apps from the Google Play Store were downloaded more than eight million times with malware. Experts discovered a 111% increase in spyware that allows hackers to see your device as if it were their own, and a 29% increase in banking malware.
While it's true that Google has been struggling for years with initiatives to put an end to it, without much success, now it's back and announced a new feature that promises protection for 3 billion Android users.
This tool, called “Live Threat Detection,” will be a new tool in Google Play Protect. It will become, so to speak, a tireless watchdog, monitoring 200 billion requests a day, looking for any suspicious behavior.
As expected, you'll have invaluable help from AI to analyze how apps request permissions and how they interact with each other.
If this protection system finds something strange, the app in question will be sent directly to Google for a thorough review. If it turns out to be malicious, it will be disabled. All this without putting you in any trouble, thanks to the system that performs the checks on your own device.
As good news goes, you won’t have to wait long to see this feature in action. Before the end of the year, it will be available to various Android phones, starting with Google Pixels and other brands.