Google publishes its annual security report on Android

Google has released its annual security report on the Android system, which provides very important information on protecting users of this operating system against various damage and potential access to their devices through them.

With more than 2 billion Android devices, the user protection mechanism is more important than ever. Google Play Protect runs a daily security scan of over 50 billion apps downloaded from users' endpoints, as well as up to 500,000 apps in the cloud, to reduce the number of apps compromised for users.

Last year, only 0.08% of devices using the Google Play Store exclusively to download apps were affected by Android apps, and 0.68% of devices downloaded Android apps from outside the store. were infected with one or more malicious applications.

In addition, Google Play Store's built-in security mechanism has blocked 1.6 billion attempts to install malicious Android apps outside the store. Thanks to this technology, the number of attempts to install malicious applications outside the store has decreased by 20%, which means that it has been able to prevent 73% of the attempts to install malicious applications, compared with 71% the year before and 59% the previous year, which reflects the evolution of technology over time. And its ability to detect more risks.

Another technique called "Building Test Package", which has helped more than 300,000 developers, fixes over a million copies of apps to improve security.

The report contains many important information about the security and protection of Android. Last year, Google paid out about $ 3 million to security researchers who discovered gaps in the system. You can view the report from the link below.