Your Android phone will soon warn you about that sketchy app sneakily changing icons
Play Protect will also be able to look for "text or binary patterns" in apps to detect malware families.
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- Google Play Protect will soon detect when an app changes its icon, and alert users to this behavior.
- Malicious apps sometimes change their app icon to evade removal, so this should help in a big way.
- Play Protect is also gaining improved on-device detection of malware.
Google Play Protect is one of the first lines of defense against malicious apps on your Android phone. Google recently beefed up this service with real-time scanning protection, and the company has now announced more additions.
Google confirmed that Play Protect’s live threat detection feature can now detect when an app changes its icon, subsequently alerting users about this behavior.
