TLDR Tech / InfoSec
Keeping Google Play & Android app ecosystems safe in 2025
Google reported blocking over 1.75 million policy-violating apps and banning 80,000 malicious developer accounts from Google Play in 2025, while Play Protect's real-time scanning identified more than 27 million new malicious apps from outside the store across 350 billion daily scans. Enhanced fraud protection expanded to 185 markets covering 2.8 billion devices, blocking 266 million risky sideloaded installation attempts. New defenses included in-call scam protection preventing users from being socially engineered into disabling Play Protect, and Android 16's one-line-of-code tapjacking protection for sensitive app screens.
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