{"id":255915,"date":"2023-10-22T02:51:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-22T06:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=311260"},"modified":"2025-07-01T17:54:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T00:54:15","slug":"google-now-scans-android-apps-in-real-time-to-prevent-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/google-now-scans-android-apps-in-real-time-to-prevent-malware\/","title":{"rendered":"Google now scans Android apps in real-time to prevent malware."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Through its security system, known as Play Protect, Google will start implementing new real-time scanning features in the system<\/strong> to make it more challenging for malicious Android apps<\/strong> that employ polymorphism. As a result, Android device users should be able to experience a significant reduction in malware infections<\/strong> in the system.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Without a doubt, it’s a significant step for Google and Android. Furthermore, Google Play Protect evolves even further with this measure, now being a much more comprehensive service capable of providing an additional layer of security for devices<\/strong> using the mentioned operating system. It’s worth mentioning that this new real-time scanning feature of the service is already available in some countries around the world<\/strong> and will be gradually rolled out to the rest in the coming months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Malicious apps will have a harder time from now on on Android<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

While apps from the Google Play Store usually don’t pose any threats to Android devices, the situation changes when it comes to external apps<\/strong> since they can easily be malicious and find ways to bypass security platforms<\/strong>. With these new features from Mountain View, this should change, at least to a great extent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This new real-time scanning by Google Play Protect is effective for apps downloaded from the Play Store, Android’s app store<\/strong>, and APKs <\/strong>downloaded from external sources outside the mentioned system. When these malicious apps are installed on a mobile phone or tablet, they fetch additional code from an external resource, completing their functionality during the subsequent verification phase, where there is no way to stop them<\/strong>. Now, with the new features of Google’s service, behavioral signals from the apps can be extracted.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those signals will be sent to the backend infrastructure of Play Protect, where they will undergo a very thorough analysis to determine how secure that application really is<\/strong>. Specifically, the company states the following<\/a><\/strong>: ‘Our security protections and machine learning algorithms learn from every app submitted to Google for review, and we analyze thousands of signals and compare the behavior of the apps.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Therefore, this real-time scanning of Google’s security service for Android will make better use of static and dynamic analysis, as well as heuristics and machine learning<\/strong>, to identify patterns that may lead to malware. It is hoped that this measure will have a significant impact and succeed in reducing the amount of malware<\/strong> that infiltrates Android every day. However, just as security systems evolve, new techniques may also be employed to evade these systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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