Do not take these risks.
Google’s mission to secure Android continues, narrowing the gap to iPhone. But that can never fully succeed unless and until user behaviors change. That’s the stark takeaway from Google’s update this week, and it must be taken seriously.
Google says that last year its “AI-powered threat detection and other security measures prevented 2.36 million policy-violating apps from being published on Google Play.” Even so, we have seen repeated instances of those defenses being breached. In the last month alone, Google has deleted hundreds of dangerous and malicious apps after security researchers found they had infected devices with adware or malware.