Google Blocked Over 2.28M Risky Android Apps In 2023 Play Store Cleanup

Google says that it leveraged its 'SAFE' principles in 2023 to ramp up user protections in the Play Store, and it's got the numbers to prove it. Read More

Google Play Store is rolling out a new badge for government-made apps

Google is rolling out a new badge for official state and federal government-made apps. Over 3,000 apps from 12 countries are receiving the badge starting today. The Play Store had previously been ... Read More

Google flexes security muscle, says it stopped 2.2 million rogue apps from hitting Play Store in 2023

Google says the push to keep the Play Store a clean place came from its SAFE principles - Safeguard users, Advocate for developer protection, Foster responsible ... Read More

Google defended the Play Store from 2.28 million malicious apps last year

Play Protect detected five million new malicious apps last year, while Google removed 1.5 million apps not targeting the latest APIs. Read More

2 fake investment apps removed from Google Play Store after notice from Gugraon Cyber police

Google has taken down two fake investment-related apps from its Play Store on Android following a notice from the Gurugram Police, as reported by IANS. The apps, named FHT and SS-Equitrade, were ... Read More

Google Blocks 2.3 Million Apps From Play Store Listing

Google blocked millions of policy-violating apps from being listed on Play in 2023 and banned 333,000 bad accounts ... Read More

Your Android phone could have stalkerware — here’s how to remove it

These spyware apps are downloaded from outside of Google Play’s app store, planted on a phone ... Keep in mind that removing the spyware from your phone will likely alert the person who planted ... Read More

How to Remove Spyware | Best Spy App Removal Tools in 2024

Real-time protection by TotalAV Pro ensures that any spyware that might have snuck into your device via a malicious website or a corrupted file is removed ... by the Mac App Store prevent Intego ... Read More

Apple removes three AI apps capable of creating nude images of people from the App Store

Apple has removed three apps from the App Store after it was found that they were using generative AI to take photos uploaded by users and then turn them into nonconsensual nudes of their subjects. Read More

Apple removes AI apps from App Store for promoting non-consensual nude images: Report

Apple has reportedly taken action to remove a group of AI-powered image generation apps from its App Store after it was revealed that these apps claimed they could create non consensual nude images. Read More

Philippines orders Apple, Google to remove Binance from app stores

April 23 (UPI) --Philippine market regulators said Tuesday they had ordered Apple and Google to remove the apps of the virtual ... the watchdog said in a news release. Advertisement "The SEC ... Read More