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Keeping Google Play & Android app ecosystems safe in 2025
<span class="byline-author">Posted by Vijaya Kaza, VP and GM, App & Ecosystem Trust</span>
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Attributed threat actors
- PlayG1040
MITRE ATT&CK techniques
- Social EngineeringT1684
- CredentialsT1589.001
- Generative AIAML.T0016.002
Indicators of compromise
- https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/01/helping-users-find-trusted-apps-on-google-play.htmlurl
- https://developer.android.com/studiourl
- https://developer.android.com/studio/publish/insightsurl
- https://developer.android.com/google/play/integrityurl
- https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/10/stronger-threat-detection-simpler.htmlurl
- https://developer.android.com/google/play/integrity/device-recallurl
- https://developer.android.com/developer-verification/guides/early-accessurl
- https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/12/enhancing-android-security-stop-malware.htmlurl
- https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/12/enhancing-android-security-stop-malware.html#:~:text=Automatic%2C%20enhanced%20security%20for%20setFilterTouchesWhenObscured%20protectionurl
- https://developer.android.com/privacy-and-security/risks/tapjacking#mitigationsurl
- blogger.googleusercontent.comdomain