Google Play 2024 Security Report: AI-Powered Defenses Protect Billions

Google's 2024 Google Play security report highlights its commitment to user and developer safety. Leveraging AI-powered threat detection, strengthened privacy policies, and enhanced developer tools, Google Play prevented 2.36 million policy-violating apps from publication and banned over 158,000 malicious developer accounts. The report focuses on AI's role in proactively identifying malware, collaboration with developers to improve security and privacy (limiting access to sensitive data, enhanced data deletion options), and Google Play Protect's real-time scanning which identified over 13 million malicious apps from outside Google Play. New fraud protection features shield users from scams and malware. Google also collaborates with governments and industry partners to establish new app security assessment standards for a safer app ecosystem.