The search giant has cited its Google Play Protect service as having a significant role in identifying malware. This service is included by default with the official Play Store app.
The Google Play Protect service now scans 50 million apps per day, and even downloads and scans every Android app it finds on the internet.
Andrew Ahn, Product Manager for Google Play, says the company has been learning from all those incidents in the past. He said the Play Store's automated systems are now getting better at detecting threats.
He explains:
"We find that over 80% of severe policy violations are conducted by repeat offenders and abusive developer networks," Ahn said. "When malicious developers are banned, they often create new accounts or buy developer accounts on the black market in order to come back to Google Play"Ahn says the Play Store team has now improved its clustering and account matching technologies and is now detecting repeat offender accounts much faster. Sometimes these malicious apps are blocked before they are approved to be listed on the Play Store.
