US EditionGoogle Rejected Nearly Two Million Android Apps and Blocked More than 80,000 Developer Accounts From Google Play in 2025
Google banned over 80,000 developer accounts and blocked 255,000 apps from accessing sensitive data, reducing malicious apps on Play Store to 1.75 million in 2025.
- On Thursday, Google said it prevented 1.75 million policy-violating apps from being published on Google Play in 2025, down from 2.36 million in 2024 and 2.28 million in 2023.
- Google credited its increased investments in proactive security and AI for deterring bad actors, saying developer verification and mandatory pre-review checks raised the ecosystem's entry bar this year.
- Google Play Protect identified more than 27 million malicious apps, covers 2.8 billion Android devices, and Google runs over 10,000 safety checks per app while blocking 160 million spam reviews last year.
- Google's enforcement removed more than 80,000 developer accounts in 2025, and the company said bad actors are increasingly avoiding the Play Store when targeting users.
- Looking ahead, Google plans to increase AI investments in 2026 while facing regulatory pressure from European regulators over the Digital Markets Act, the company said.
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Google Bans 1.75 million fake apps from Play Store, blocks 80000 developers
Google just removed more than 1.75 million fake and shady applications from the Play Store. That’s a huge swing at scammers and a big step toward making Android safer in 2025. In a blog post which was posted on February 19, Google called out a number of apps which were breaking the privacy and security rules. Kicking them off the store was not all they did, but the tech giant locked down around 80,000 developer accounts which were tied to repeat…
Google blocked 1.75 million malicious apps on Google Play last year. Malware distribution and attacks targeting Google's official app marketplace, the Google Play Store, have decreased. Google attributed this to its proactive investment in security. Google announced on the 20th...
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IT Security News - cybersecurity, infosecurity newsGoogle says its AI systems helped deter Play Store malware in 2025
Google said it prevented 1.75 million bad apps from going live on Google Play during 2025, a figure that's down from previous years.
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