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Google enlists mobile security firms to identify malicious apps on Play Store

Google has partnered with mobile security companies EST, Lookout, and Zimperium to help identify malicious apps before they are published on the Play Store. The companies have created App Defence Alliance; it will allow the three partners to integrate Google Play Protect detection into their own scanning engines which will add an extra layer of protection for all the apps that are queued to get published, Google said. How is this different from Google Play protect? While Google Play Protect scans the Play Store and highlights malicious apps, the App Defense Alliance scans apps before they are listed on the Play Store. This protects the users from downloading any such apps accidentally. Google's problems with fake apps: The Google Play Store had over 2,000 fake apps as of June, according to a cybersecurity study by the University of Sydney and Data61-CSIRO. These fake apps were duplicates of popular games such as Temple Run, Free Flow, and Hill Climb Racing, and many of them contained malware and requested dangerous data access permissions. The study had advised users to perform the following checks before downloading apps to avoid being hacked: Do the homework: Find out which platforms and countries the new app has been officially released in, as hackers may target those platforms and countries where these popular apps are yet to be released. Be mindful of cross-market counterfeits: Check if an app has been released on both Android and iOS as hackers sometimes release fake versions of popular apps that are only…

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