Over the years, Google has released a host of safety measures for calls, messages and web browsing that rapidly use AI to protect smartphone users from scams. Next to the i/O 2025 Developers Conference, Google has now expanded the next wave of security facilities on Android equipment this year.
Bad actors often trick users to disable the underlying safety measures, such as Google Play Protect, Sideloading Malware Apps, and enabling permissions allowing data theft. Google says that the purpose of the next-gene security facilities in Android will be to deny these attacks.
Screen sharing alert for banking scam
Screen-sharing is a warning in the first line. Online fraud is known for copying banks or government officials. I have made some close calls to myself in the last few years. As part of their plan, they ask users to share their screen so that they can scam, such as money transfer or installing dangerous packages on their phone.
To prevent such scenarios, Google is testing a new in-call security facility in partnership with banking institutions. When using the banking app on a call with an unknown contact, your phone will warn you about the risk and the option to cut the call and disable screen sharing at a time.
This feature will work on the devices running the Android 11 or later version starting from the UK. The Google message is also expanding the scope of scam detection in the app. So far, it has focused on jobs and package delivery scams, but Google is now going to smell a variety of scams in real time.
Moving forward, the AI-managed system will also look for fake road toll messages, crypto-related texts, financial imperfection attacks, gift cards and free prize alerts, and tech support scams. Google is also expanding Protection against Chrome Browser against Tech Support Fraud.
Verification verification to prevent identity fraud
Identification and copying fraud are on a large scale these days. I often come in reports in which someone pretended to be a large part of his savings to a bad actor to be a friend or family member. To compete with copying, Google is starting a system called key verification.
In the Google Contact App, now you can ask your friends and family members to verify their contact information using a layer of encryption protected by a layer of encryption. Once the scan is performed at the other end, the contact is listed as verified with the green lock icon.
How does it help? Okay, suppose your friend’s phone falls into the wrong hands and a scammer tries to give you a message by popping the sim in another phone. When they do so, the sender will appear in uneven form, showing that something is wrong. The major verification will be available on all phones running the Android 10 or later version in the coming weeks.
