Google identifies more than 25000 apps malicious thanks to the ‘Verify … – CNET in Spanish

Google improves Android security step by step.

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Talk about security on Android is always a complicated issue, however Google has given you to know through the Android Developers Blog the result of a new verification tool applications — Verify Apps — introduced in Android 7.0 and that has already helped to identify and banish the ecosystem more than 25,000 apps harmful.

According to the company, all of the devices that include Google services, and in particular the store of applications Google Play, you now have this new tool installed, which allows the verification of applications potentially dangerous.

While that Verify Apps can identify app dangerous and suggest that you uninstall them, the problems are not always so simple to resolve, and that is where it has come into play the intelligence of this tool to the advanced world of malware.

If the app is malicious, you have installed disable Verify Apps and your you give your consent without knowing it, this security tool from Google will continue to work, although in a different way. And is that Google has decided on a little play police and thief with the virus and all threats, although camouflaging its intentions behind various tools.

So, the fact that Verify Apps is turned off will also be an alert to Google, because devices with this system constantly alert that everything is in order with the operating system and its developers, as this does happen, it will start a scan to know if the phone has simply been damaged or no longer use, or if on the contrary, after the installation of the app, security tool stopped working.

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But… what good is this if my phone already is a victim of malware? Much: if Google detects that after install a app, a number of devices fails to check the security, then you can determine that the app is malware and eradicate it.

According to Google, this is only a formula of the number used to make Android increasingly safe and is the way by which 25,000 apps malicious have been removed from the ecosystem.

In 2016 malware HummingBad was up to his in hundreds of devices, especially in Asia, although there were also some affected in Mexico and the US, and Others like Viking Jump, in the guise of games were also stealing data from the users.

The security updates are often a problem for Android, especially because not all devices meet the requirements to be updated, not only by hardware, but also because they have older versions of the operating system.