That smartphone in your pocket is home to your favorite app, personal accounts and sensitive data. This means that your device should have the strongest security security to prevent your money or information from stealing.
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For Android users, Google provides various types of equipment and technologies to defend you against scammers, malware and other hazards for your safety and privacy. One in Blog post published on TuesdayThe company now spots the available or soon the security coming and how they aim to protect you from the latest hazards.
1. Security against scam call
The first scam is protected against phone calls. Lovers scammers can try to trick you on doing some tasks on your phone, such as changing default safety settings or providing elevated permissions to a malicious app. For your safety, Google will warn you of such efforts and even block specific types of tasks.
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The new in-call safety of Android will try to stop three types of actions:
- Disable the defense of Google Play. Following by default, it scans the underlying safety security for constant malicious apps, whatever sources are, and therefore always be active.
- Loading an app for the first time. This applies if you are loading an app from a web browser, messaging app, or other source, which Google has not vetted for the dangers of security or privacy.
- Providing access permissions. This can give a malicious app control on your device to steal banking information and other private data.
Also, if you are sharing your screen during a phone call, Android will take care to prevent scammers from reaching sensitive information after the call is finished to take care.
In-call protections run perfectly on your device and are effective only with non-contacts. Protection against disabling Google Play Protect is available on android 6 or higher running devices. Security will be available on devices running the upcoming Android 16 against loading an app and providing accessibility permissions.
2. In-call security for banking apps
Scammers that apply banks or government agencies will sometimes motivate you to share your screen and try to trick you in doing some tasks, such as money transfer. To guard against it, Google is operating new in-call security for the banking app starting in Britain.
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If you launch a banking app on your phone while sharing your screen with an unknown contact, your device will warns you about potential hazards. Then you will be given the option to eliminate the call and stop screen sharing with only one tap.
This protection will be automatically capable of participating in banks’ apps on any device running android 11 or more. Google said it is working with UK banks to pilot this feature with its customers in the coming weeks. Based on the results of the pilot, the company plans to expand this security through a broad rollout.
3. Google messages detect better scam
In Google messages, the scam is an attempt to protect you from the text conversations that seem harmless in the beginning but then quickly become suspicious and even malicious. If this happens, the convenience warns you. Currently, protection is focused on job scams and package distribution scams. Now it is expanding to include other types of fraud, including:
- Toll road and other billing fee scam
- Crypto scam
- Financial copying scam
- Gift card and prize scam
- Technical aid scam
4. Better encryption for text messages through key verification
The familiar person you are text may actually be a cyber criminal that can apply your reliable contact in an attempt to scam. To protect this type of fraud and its own messages, Google is offering a tool called the key verification. With this feature, you will be able to verify the identity of another person through public encryption keys. Here is how it will work.
Using the QR code or number comparison, you confirm the identity of the person you are text through your Google Contact App. By ensuring that your secret key match, you verify that the second person is really your contact, and you also keep the conversation private and safe.
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What if the keys do not match? In that case, this may be an indication that a scammer stole your contact phone number and is using it on a separate device, as in the SIM swap attack. The contact status in the Google contact app will no longer be marked as verified. You can then try to use another means to warn your contact that their account and phone number can be compromised. Later in this summer, the major verification will be accessible on the android 10 or higher running devices.
5. Strong mobile phone theft security
A criminal who steals your phone can capture your financial and personal data, which not only causes monetary loss, but also identifies theft. Google already provides security facilities for theft, which aim to help you before, during and after theft. The company also offers an identity check tool for Pixel and Samsung One UI7 device.
Now, identity check is expanding to more devices running Android 16. This is not all. Later this year, the Google will strengthen the security against the factory reset by restricting such tasks without the owner’s authority. At the same time, the remote lock feature will motivate you to answer a safety challenge question to verify your identity.
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In addition, there is a change in the password of one time on the tap. If your device is not linked to Wi-Fi or has not been unlocked recently, then the password sent it will hide on your lock screen once. This means that your device must unlock that password for the first time.
6. Advanced security for mobile devices
Whether you are hitting a public person with targeted attacks or just someone who wants strong security, Google offers an advanced security program. Here, the company will verify and certify all your login operations to protect your accounts, your device and your data. The latest version of advanced security will be Android 16 is available on all devices running,
7. Improvement in security of google play
Google is giving beef to Play Protect in some ways. Designed to protect you from malicious apps, this feature is now using a new set of on-devices Rule To search for binary patterns found in malware families. If such a pattern is detected, you will be warned that the app is malicious before trying to install it. These rules will often be updated to catch the latest pattern. This latest update of Google Play Protect is now available to all Android users worldwide.
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Experts of malicious apps try to cover your track by hiding or replacing the icon of the scammers app, making it difficult for you to find or remove the program. Now, the Play Protect will include live danger detection to alert this type of behavior. This protection will reach selected devices from other manufacturers for some time in the coming months with Google Pixel 6 and high devices.
8. Increase overall android security
Beyond all new and better features, Google always enhances its overall Android security. This is through tools and technologies offered with each new version of Android along with updates of Google Play services and other reforms. The final goal is to protect you from advanced and emerging hazards because cyber criminals continue their game.
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