Google Play Store will get more tools to protect users from scammy apps

What you need to know

• Google announced increased safety measures that will roll out soon to its Play Store.
• In an attempt to create a safer Android Ecosystem, Google will expand Play Protect to “target malicious applications that try to impersonate financial apps.”
• It will start adding more verified badges to help users identify and validate genuine apps — “Verified” for VPNs.

Google announced today that it will be extensively working on making its Play Store a safer platform for both app developers as well as users. In a lengthy Android Developers’ blog post, the company chalked out protection plans for 2025 that will make it easier for developers to build safe apps right from the get-go, which will help users recognize “real” apps from fraudulent ones.

To start, Google Play Protect, which has its live threat detection in place, is expanding its protection to target more “malicious applications that try to impersonate financial apps.”