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Google says that it is getting better than ever at protecting Android users against bad apps and malicious developers.

In fact, in a recent post on the Android Developers blog, the company boasts that it removed a record number of malicious apps from the official Google Play store during 2017.

How many apps did Google remove from its app marketplace after finding they violated Google Play store policies? More than 700,000. That’s an impressive 2000 or so every day, and 70% more than the number of apps removed in 2016.

Furthermore, Google says it is getting better at proactively protecting Android users from the growing menace of mobile malware:

“Not only did we remove more bad apps, we were able to identify and action against them earlier. In fact, 99% of apps with abusive contents were identified and rejected before anyone could install them. This was possible through significant improvements in our ability to detect abuse – such as impersonation, inappropriate content, or malware – through new machine learning models and techniques.”

Furthermore, Google claims it banned more than 100,000 developer accounts controlled by “bad actors” who had attempted to create new accounts and publish yet more malicious apps.

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“DressCode” apps turned phones into listening posts that could bypass firewalls.

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A million Google accounts have been compromised in a massive fraud campaign exploiting Android devices and Google Play.

At the heart of the campaign is a new variant of Android malware dubbed Gooligan, concealed in dozens of Android apps that exploit two unpatched flaws in Android to root infected devices.

The malware nabs email account information and authentication tokens for accessing Google accounts. The attackers use the tokens to install select apps from Google Play on an infected device to boost in-app advertising revenue.

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