Google has announced new, real-time scanning features for Google Play Protect that make it harder for malicious apps employing polymorphism to evade detection. This represents a significant step ...

Google has bolstered the security of Android devices with a significant update to Google Play Protect. According to the tech giant, this development is in response to the growing prevalence of ...

Five years ago, researchers made a grim discovery—a legitimate Android app in the Google Play market that was surreptitiously made malicious by a library the developers used to earn advertising ...

Android’s in-built security engine Google Play Protect has a new feature that conducts a real-time analysis of an Android app’s code and blocks it from installing the app if it’s considered ...

Google will start taking action on Android apps in the official Google Play store that have high background activity and cause excessive battery draining.

Google announced a fresh set of security updates for the Android platform, to address two vulnerabilities in the System ...

Google has announced that it is winding down the Google Play Security Reward Program. The program was introduced in late 2017 to incentivize security researchers to find and responsibly disclose ...

Krystle Vermes is a Boston-based news reporter for Android Police. She is a graduate of the Suffolk University journalism program, and has more than a decade of experience as a writer and editor in ...

(RTTNews) - Google Play Store's reward program for security researchers who find vulnerabilities in popular Android apps would be discontinued on August 31, the company announced in an email to ...

Chandraveer, a seasoned mechanical design engineer turned tech reporter and reviewer, brings more than three years of rich experience in consumer tech journalism to the table, having contributed to ...

Researchers on Wednesday said they found fake apps in Google Play that masqueraded as legitimate ones for the Signal and Telegram messaging platforms. The malicious apps could pull messages or other ...